Daniel Belfort

“If something looks irrational – and has been so for a long time – odds are you have a wrong definition of rationality.” – Taleb

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”

For much of history, if you asked someone to define “community,” they’d give you an answer that involved a physical location — a school, synagogue, church. Today, the word community invokes something more intimate: identity. It’s not something we’re born into, but something we choose.

There is nothing uglier than hypocrisy, and nothing more beautiful that authenticity.

If you subconsciously feel you don't deserve to be rich, you'll sabotage your pursuit.

Acceptance, however, is a completely egoless activity. In fact, it isn’t an activity at all. It is precisely an inactivity.