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Just don't give up, No one has it easy. Winners are those who persevere, With sense @Audiobooks_collection

One of Charlie Munger's most powerful messages, is to avoid needing luck, by "stacking the odds" in your favor. People complain about others being "lucky," but be the person who doesn't need luck at all. @Audiobooks_collection

Seven guys at the beach bar Saturday, all screaming at a UFC card. I asked the loudest one what he trains. Silence you could surf on. You have favorite fighters and zero fights. Favorite lifters and zero calluses. Favorite writers and zero pages. Fandom is the methadone of ambition, and the bloodless bar was nodding off. — Day @Audiobooks_collection

How strange is man. His life passes without him realising, he destroys his present worrying about his future, and then weeps in the future over his past. — Imam ʿAlī @Audiobooks_collection

If you encounter a man who is currently a loser, but who is working tirelessly and willing to take risks to improve his wretched life, help him out. On the off chance that he succeeds, he will remember you forever. Losers who are working like mad to become winners are the most undervalued high risk-high reward asset class in the universe @Audiobooks_collection

The average man will spend 9 years of his life on his phone and then stand at the gates and tell God he never had time. Nine years. You could learn three languages, build two businesses, and raise a child right in nine years. Time was never the problem. Worship was. @Audiobooks_collection

The best thing you can do in times of transition is: Have one foot in the future, while grounded in great practices of the past... Learn technology & understand the cutting edge, but still be reading real books & writing by hand. Develop your skills, but still develop the self. @Audiobooks_collection

There are two ways to interpret a failure: 1. Evidence that it is impossible for you to succeed. 2. Information about what hasn't worked yet. - Unsuccessful people stay down because of #1. - Successful people take hard hits, but ultimately decide they can figure it out (#2). @Audiobooks_collection

I work on myself because I understand that I am responsible for where I end up. Not for everything that happened to me, but for every response, every habit, and every decision I made after it. That distinction is everything. Blame is easy. Ownership is what actually changes your life. @Audiobooks_collection

The people who seem most alive are nearly always the ones still enthusiastic about something. @Audiobooks_collection

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles. T.F. Hodge @Audiobooks_collection

Giving people too many chances or too much leeway, only teaches them how to disrespect you. True in work, and true in life. @Audiobooks_collection

Every. Single. Choice. is constructing your life brick by brick. Pay Attention. @Audiobooks_collection

I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from: •getting humiliated •showing up terrified and doing it anyway •admitting you might be the problem @Audiobooks_collection

Social media is often watching people get obsessed & emotionally invested in whatever the topic of the day is... And never move the needle in their own life. That energy could move mountains for their own lives and families. @Audiobooks_collection

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“There comes a moment in life when a person realizes that the world they spent years trying to understand was never obligated to explain itself to them, and in that realization something quiet begins to die — not hope exactly, nor happiness, but the innocent belief that existence was designed to be fair, coherent, or merciful. Yet strangely, from the ruins of that illusion, a different kind of beauty emerges: the beauty of continuing anyway, of loving fragile things despite knowing they vanish, of speaking despite silence surrounding every word, of searching for meaning while standing inside a universe vast enough to erase every human certainty without effort.” @Audiobooks_collection