"You are not responsible for other people’s opinions, feelings, or perceptions of you. They own that, not you."
- Shane Parrish
Self-awareness
"A happy person doesn’t have to convince other people they are happy. Either you are or you’re not. And if you are, you’re not taking selfies to show people."
- Shane Parrish
Happiness
"That feeling when you give it all you have, and life still kicks your ass."
- Shane Parrish
Adversity
"Reading speed is nothing more than signaling. Skim broadly to find something worth reading. Then dive in slowly and deeply. It’s not how fast you read but what you absorb that matters."
- Shane Parrish
Learning
"Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow."
- Shane Parrish
Growth
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity