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
The significance of being a human is that you have the ability to discriminate and choose the course of your life. If you don't employ that, then you are not much of a human being.
- from Death; An Inside Story book by Sadhguru
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
- from 1984 book by George Orwell
Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.
- from The Richest Man in Babylon book by George S. Clason
The great irony of investing is that the more you watch and fiddle with your holdings the less well you are likely to do. Fill your basket, add as much as you can along the way and ignore it the rest of the time. You'll likely wake up rich.
- from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
Reverse radar and parking sensors and cameras and crap like that. A man who needs all that to back up with a trailer shouldn't be bloody doing it in the first place.
- from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman