~Thread of quotes~

1) A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.

~ @naval

For every retweet, I will add another.

2) "Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face."

~ Oscar Wilde

3) "The principle of strategy is having one thing, to know ten thousand things."

~ Miyamoto Musashi

4) "There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

~ Alexander the Great

5) “The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

~ Marcus Aurelius

6) "Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."

~ Sun Tzu

7) "The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."

~ @nntaleb

8) “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”

~ Friedrich Schiller

9) "All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

~ Pascal

10) "Strong minds discuss ideas.

Average minds discuss events.

Weak minds discuss people."

~ Socrates

11) “He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”

~ Michel de Montaigne

12) "Peace of mind is the highest wealth."

~ @Kpaxs

13) “No human thing is of serious importance.”

~ Plato

14) “The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

~ Carl Jung

15) "Desire is a contract you make to be unhappy, until you get what you want."

~ Buddhist wisdom & more recently @naval

16) “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

~ Mark Twain

17) “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”

~ @JamesClear

18) “A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”

~ Henry A. Kissinger

19) "The highest privilege is to spend all your hours on what you love."

~ @orangebook_

20) "A jealous man cannot be wealthy."

~ @Wealth_Theory

21) "Be jealous of what you have."

~ @shl

22) "Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self."

~ Buddha

23) “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, ‘Faster horses’.”

~ Henry Ford

24) "Sometimes I want to ask God why he allows poverty, famine, and injustice when he could do something about it, but I’m afraid he might just ask me the same question."

~ Abdu’l-Baha

25) "To be evenminded is the greatest virtue."

~ Heraclitus

26) "Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

~ Archimedes

27) "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control."

~ @naval

28) "Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it."

~ Epictetus

29) "Don’t underestimate what can be built in a year, or what can be destroyed in an afternoon."

~ @TheStoicEmperor

30) "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

~ @WarrenBuffett

31) "A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it."

~ Tolkien

32) "Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

~ Pissarro

33) "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

~ Confucius

34) "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

~ Lao Tzu

35) "To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."

~ Hegel

36) "Above all, do not lie to yourself."

~ Dostoyevsky

37) "If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking."

~ Benjamin Franklin

38) There is no competition to a calm mind practising its craft.

~ philosophyio

39) "They do not love who do not show their love."

~ Shakespeare

40) "The time is always right to do what is right."

~ Martin Luther King Jr

41) "Day by day, what you do is who you become."

~ Heraclitus

42) "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

~ Nietzsche

43) "The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent."

~ @nntaleb

44) "I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take."

~ Nietzsche

45) "To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."

~ Aristotle

46) "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

~ Galileo

47) "Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls."

~ Antisthenes

48) "A great part of freedom is a well-governed appetite."

~ Seneca

49) "The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”

~ Marcus Aurelius

50) "You can change only what people know, not what they do."

~ @ScottAdamsSays

51) "Man thinks he knows the minds of others when he hardly knows his own."

~ @TheStoicEmperor

52) "I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

~ Richard P. Feynman

53) "Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."

~ @WarrenBuffett

54) "In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -none, zero."

~ Charlie Munger

55) "The fundamental delusion - that there is something out there that will make you happy forever."

~ @naval

56) "A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed."

~ @mattwridley

57) "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

~ David Hume

58) "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

~ Richard P. Feynman

59) "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it."

~ Marie Curie

60) "This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."

~ Augustine

61) "Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

~ Virginia Woolf

62) "Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”

~ Pythagoras

63) "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

~ Laozi

64) "A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

~ Confucius

65) "Anger is born of unfulfilled desire. It is born of unfulfilled expectation."

~ Kapil Gupta

66) "Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

@DalaiLama

67) "No man is free who cannot control himself."

~ Pythagoras

68) "There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself."

~ Miyamoto Musashi

69) "Choose not to be harmed - and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed - and you haven't been."

~ Marcus Aurelius

70) "History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets."

~ @harari_yuval

71) Society values the illusion of happiness (social media) over the real thing (internal peace).

Society values the illusion of wealth (debt) over the real thing (financial freedom).

Society values the illusion of character (status) over the real thing (internal reputation).

72) "Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength."

~ Tibetan proverb

73) "Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through."

~ @jposhaughnessy

74) "The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play."

~ Arthur C. Clarke

75) "What seems unreasonable, unrealistic and impossible today can turn out to be inevitable tomorrow."

~ @rcbregman

76) "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

~ @WarrenBuffett

77) "To bankrupt a fool, give him information."

~ @nntaleb

78) The greatest gift: An intelligent partner who is naturally kind.

~ philosophyio