Naval Ravikant on Death

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Naval Ravikant on Death

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Quote for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"When the rest of us are chasing victory, the best in the world know they must avoid losing before they can win. It turns out this is a surprisingly effective strategy." - Shane Parris

"The world is split between those who don't know how to start making money and those who don't know when to stop." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

"I cannot escape death, but I can escape the fear of it." - Epictetus

Quotes for Today

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"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome." - Charlie Munger

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top." - Edward Abbey

"We are all in conspiracy against the next man." - William Kennedy

"Envy is the tax which all distinctions must pay." - Henry David Thoreau

Quotes for Today

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"The point of journalism is the truth. The point of journalism is to improve society." - Sebastian Junger

"Death makes everything else sad. But death only scares." - Ray Bradbury

"Having a phone in your pocket is like always carrying around a glazed donut that constantly temps you to snack on it - but if you do, you know it will ruin your appetite." - Ruby LaRocca

"More dreams die from a lack of confidence than a lack of competence. But while confidence is often a byproduct of accomplishments, it also comes from how you talk to yourself." - Shane Parrish

Quotes for Today

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"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting you are special too." - Ernest Hemingway

"No one tries to win the moment at the expense of the decade, and yet that is often how it goes." - Shane Parrish

"'There is only now,' he explained finally, his voice now above a murmur, 'There is no other dimension but now. In the past we have done everything badly for the sake of the future. Now we must do everything right for the sake of the present.'" - John le Carre

"I write for the same reason a beaver eats wood, if I don't my teeth will grow long and poke through my brain." - David Mamet

Quotes for Today

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"Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes." - Charles Bukowski

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." - Seneca

"The key is not to get carried away by desire; we need to manage it with wisdom and mindfulness." - Joseph Goldstein

"Meditation is a waste of time, like learning French or kissing after sex." - Jack Donaghy

Quotes for Today

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"My reading strategy is to start as many books as I can but finish few of them." - Morgan Housel

"The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart." - Neil Gaiman

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - John F. Kennedy

"In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being." - Joe Strummer

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"There are few things more dangerous than someone who's powerful, unscrupulous, and afraid." - Paul Graham

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception." - Groucho Marx

"I cannot escape death but at least I can escape the fear of it." - Epictetus

"The universe is a book written for man's understanding." - Charles Pierce

Quotes for Today

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"Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!" - Raymond Smullivan

"Socialism is often dressed up as environmentalism, feminism, or concern for human rights. All sound good in the abstract. But scratch the surface and you'll as likely as not discover anti-capitalism, patronizing, and distorting quotas, and intrusions upon sovereignty and democracy." - Margaret Thatcher

"It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst." - Ian Fleming

"Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous.... in war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times." - Winston Churchill

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

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Quotes for Today

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"Habits are the compound interest of self improvement." - Srinivas Rao

"Some theologians have denied this [the Garden of Eden myth], and I agree with them: that the supposed unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death." - David Deutsch

 "Fly you fools!" - Gandalf

"Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And the only way it does." - John Steinbeck

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"Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!" - Winston Churchill

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch

"Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial for the rest of your life." - Naval Ravikant

"Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life." - Jerzy Gregorek

Naval Ravikant on Death

Quotes for Today

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"We are pleased, not only with praise, but with having done what is praise worthy." - Adam Smith

"You're going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work." - Naval Ravikant

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell 

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"The secret of change is to focus all your energy. Not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

"There is only one god, and his His name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'not today.'" - Syrio Forel

"Relax. You'll live longer "and" perform better." - Naval Ravikant

"Why, then, do we continue to pursue joys without substance! Because the pursuit itself has become our only substitute for joy." - Thomas Merton

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"We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well." - Randy Pausch

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible." - Richard Feynman

"Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace." - Epictetus

"Many times an old man has no other evidence besides his age to prove he lived a long time." - Seneca

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"What happens after you die? Lots of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you." - Louis C.K. 

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O'Connor 

"Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life." - Jerzy Gregorek

"I know of only two very real evils in life: remorse and illness." - Leo Tolstory