It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.