“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” 

 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

For everything there is a season, and a time for very purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to break down, and a time to build up, a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

I discovered that wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness. Foolishness leaves you in the dark. But wise or foolish, we all end up the same... we all die and are soon forgotten.

If you want to be great at something, there’s a choice you have to make. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be.

The beauty in being blessed with talent is rising above doubters to create a beautiful moment.

This is the moment I accept the most challenging times will always be behind me and in front of me.

“This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation.” 

“Time, my brothers and sisters, seems to be running out; we are not yet tearing one another apart, but we are tearing apart our common home. Today, the scientific community realizes what the poor have long told us: harm, perhaps irreversible harm, is being done to the ecosystem. The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished. And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called “the dung of the devil”. An unfettered pursuit of money rules. The service of the common good is left behind. Once capital becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home.” 

“Time is the moving image of reality” 

I am in my own head most of the time.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.” 

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority

Be ruthless about not scheduling things. You will have to disappoint people, but when they want your time, that’s their problem, not yours.

I have no time for short-term things: dinners with people I won’t see again, tedious ceremonies to please tedious people, traveling to places that I wouldn’t go to on vacation.

If they pay you what you’re worth, then you can get your time back, and if you get your time back, then you can be hyperefficient

What you want to do in life is, you want to be in control of your time, so you want to get into a leveraged job, and then you want to get into one where you control your own time and you’re tracked on the outputs.

I think it’s really worth – whenever you can in life, if you have the choice – optimizing for independence rather than optimizing for pay.

My only schedule is my daily morning workout, and even that I’m not perfect on it, but other than that I try to be as unscheduled as possible because I want to be free.

Schedules are so overrated. I wish I could have a completely unscheduled life; that would be something nice to shoot for.

Ruminating on the past is largely a waste of time. It’s illusory.