Miscellaneous Quotes

This collection of quotes made me pause for a moment.
  • Thinking is an excellent servant and terrible master.
  • Money is like gas on a road trip, you don't want to run out of gas. But at the same time, you are not doing a tour of gas stations.
  • Suffering = pain X resistance
  • Rain philosophy = (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture)
  • What you resist persists.
  • If you have one foot in the future and one foot in the past, you are pissing on the present.
  • Not my will but the hearts will be done.
  • Let go what goes, let come what comes, let remain what remains.
  • I am not ok, you are not ok, that's ok.
  • Two great disappointments in life, not getting what you want and getting what you want.
  • Simple, patience, and compassion are the real values.
  • When a person doesn't have any problem, the mind invents them.
  • Are you self-aware to ask yourself WHY, when you are emotional?
  • Whats your value system? What are metrics?
  • Hiroo Onoda: A Soldier never surrendered. Read the link, very interesting story.
  • What pain do you want to have in your life, what do you want to struggle for?
  • The secret sauce is in solving problems, not having problems.
  • Suffering is not a bug, it's a feature.
  • Rich suffer with richness, poor suffer with poorness, and not all suffering is equal, but everybody is suffering.
  • Checking your likes on social media is the new drug addiction
  • Measure your life in minutes, not in money.
  • In a deterministic world calculus works but in a non-deterministic world, statistics thrives.
EAs: Effective Altruists: 4 broad categories: 
  •  Direct benefitter(Dr, NGO).
  • Money maker(banker, management consultant)
  • Reseracher(medical, ethicist)
  • Influencer(politician, teacher)

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