Principles
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
I cannot bend the happenings of the world to my will: I am completely powerless.
I can only make myself independent of the world – and so in a certain sense master it – by renouncing any influence on happenings
Wittgenstein
“Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
if anyone has difficulty staying patient, this Howard Marks story can help.
(Also, anyone who's up 100% YTD will not come back to inform you that they're down 50% or whatever when/if that happens in some future year.) https://t.co/mlAw0u29Qy
The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. —John Ruskin
Right and Wrong are fuzzy concepts
