Just 3 Quotes - 01.06.2020
3 quotes from 3 of my books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“Bad stuff will happen. We can turn even this to our advantage. Always. It is an opportunity. Always.”
—The Obstacle is the Way, by Ryan Holiday
“As to suffering,” I continued, “forget it. It’s a non-issue. Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether. Words like suffering and happiness and compassion are just bags of rocks. Eventually, you’ll have to set them down if you want to keep going.”
—Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, by Jed McKenna
“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them—and do them well.”
—Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb