“Profitable behavior is based on good organizational routines, flexible thinking, consistent discipline and self-control.”

— Gatis Roze

“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.”

— Jim Carrey

“Clarity is power”

“You are either humble… or about to be humbled.”

“Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not”

“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”

“Never a reason to be afraid. Get fucking angry.”

“Kairos”

“When people are stressed, they tend to become crowd followers.”

“To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“trading is more about knowing when to trade than it is about trading. trading is timing. Waiting is painful. pain brings wisdom. Wisdom brings balance. Trading can be excruciating exciting when done wrong, and tautingly tedious when done right”

— Jeff Cooper

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

— Aldous Huxley via Tischendorf

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”

— Socrates

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.”

— When Breath Becomes Air

“Your primary goal is not to get rid of negative feelings and feel better, but to block them from controlling your behavior while you continue to act like a decent person.”

— Fuck Feelings

“Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn’t yet destroyed.”

— The book Orfeo

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars”

— Serbian Proverb