In the end, you are the only variable you can change. Everything else is the river.

You never know how many good days you have left.

You touch grass not because it fixes everything but to remind you that you have skin.

"It’s really hard to understand your own story, let alone figure out how to live in it, without the presence of another story. We are storied people. Humans have been this way since the dawn of creation."

“The last stars will die out 120 trillion years from now, followed by 10106 years of just black holes. Condensed, that's like the universe starting with 1 second of stars and then a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion years of just black holes. Stars are basically the immediate after-effects of the Big Bang. A one-second sizzle of brightness before settling into eternal darkness. We live in that one bright second.”

In the right eyes, you are art.

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

“What changes you isn’t the wave, it’s the erosion”

"You cannot persuade anyone by paint-balling them with your opinion. You must paint a picture of your point using the colors of the listener's mind."

some people just love the bitching rather than the doing.

the shortcut is discipline and honesty.

you can pass down money, you will have a much harder time passing down discipline and habits, and the money follows the latter.