If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

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"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. The journey changes you; it should change you."

- Anthony Bourdain

Transformation

"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."

- Anthony Bourdain

Self-awareness

"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."

- Anthony Bourdain

Happiness

"Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

Happiness

"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."

- Anthony Bourdain

Integrity

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"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

Self-awareness