The trick when dealing with failure is arranging your financial life in a way that a bad investment here and a missed financial goal there won't wipe you out so you can keep playing until the odds fall in your favor.
- from The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel
This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.
- from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
Every time I pick up a book or a document from the past, I'm in a battle with people who lived hundreds of years ago. They have their secrets and obsessions - all the things they won't or can't reveal. It's my job to discover and explain them.
- from A Discovery of Witches book by Deborah Harkness
I've been lucky enough now in my life to meet all sorts of extraordinary and accomplished people - world leaders, inventors, musicians, astronauts, athletes, professors, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, pioneering doctors and researchers. Some (though not enough) of them are women. Some (though not enough) are black or of color. Some were born poor or have lived lives that to many of us would appear to have been unfairly heaped with adversity, and yet still they seem to operate as if they've had every advantage in the world. What I've learned is this: All of them have had doubters. Some continue to have roaring, stadium-sized collections of critics and naysayers who will shout I told you so at every little misstep or mistake. The noise doesn't go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
- from Becoming book by Michelle Obama
Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
- from Night Watch book by Terry Pratchett
Stay out of things that could cause you to lose all of your capital, all of your savings. Don't gamble everything on one go. Instead, take rationally optimistic bets with big upsides.
- Naval Ravikant, from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Listen to me. You're going to be fine. People do this all the time. They defy the odds. Every damn day.
- from In Five Years book by Rebecca Serle
I felt isolated in my misery. I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost.
- from The Girl on the Train book by Paula Hawkins
Just as parents raise their kids to leave them one day, therapists work to lose patients, not retain them.
- from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb
Life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.
- from Ready Player Two book by Ernest Cline