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Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
Citadel founder Ken Griffin on opportunities:
“Often it's the person who goes the extra mile who comes to the right conclusion. That's grit, it's perseverance, it's determination. It's making the effort. One of the things we emphasize is what do you need to do, what extra steps do you need to take to get to the right conclusion faster than those you
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Shane Parrish on Steve Wozniak
Novelist and poet Charlotte Bronte reminds us to worry less about what's gone or what's coming, and focus more on what inspires us:
"I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
Source: Letter to her friend Ellen Nussey (January 15, 1849)
The philosophy of friendship goes further back, to Aristotle. “Without friends no one would choose to live,” he writes in the Nicomachean Ethics, “though he had all other goods.”