Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack.

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.

Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.