20 Quotes that redefined my life in 2020
3 min readJan 3, 2021
- Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want — Naval Ravikant
- Why do we fall
So that we can learn to pick ourselves up — Alfred (Batman Begins) - We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt — Cooper (Interstellar)
- Earn with your mind, not your time — Naval Ravikant
- We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like — Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
- Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don’t want one — Christopher McCandless (Into the Wild)
- Andar se kuch aur hi hai hum, bahar se majboor (I have a different perspective inside me, but helpless outside) — Ved (Tamasha)
- Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here — Cooper (Interstellar)
- You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain — Harvey Dent (Dark Knight)
- When life leaves us blind, Love keeps us kind — Linkin Park
- Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy — Naval Ravikant
- Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Mentors won’t make you rich. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself — Naval Ravikant
- Ten thousand promises, ten thousand ways to lose — Linkin Park
- A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned — Naval Ravikant
- When the rich wage the war, it’s the poor who die — Linkin Park
- You are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker — Tim Ferriss
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not―Seneca
- Decisions: • If you can’t decide, the answer is no. • If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality). • Choose the path that leaves you more calm and composed in the long term — Naval Ravikant
- Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don’t know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress — Paramahansa Yogananda
- I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value — Siddartha
