The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.