Fav Quotes

A list of my go to spirit lifters and Quotables.

To remind you who you are when you forget.
To guide your decisions when the path is unclear.
To rekindle your fire when the world feels cold.

This is my personal collection of quotes, questions, and phrases that have helped me stay upright when life buckled at the knees. I started keeping this list during a season where I felt lost—adrift between the person I was and the one I was trying to become.

A fancy name for something pretty simple: a set of reminders. Reminders of who I am when I forget. Of the kind of courage I want to live with. Of the kind of impact I want to leave behind. Some lines are borrowed from thinkers and poets; others are things I scribbled down on long rides or quiet nights. All of them mean something to me.
I revisit this page when I need to recenter—when I’m tired, uncertain, or just need a reminder that this road is still worth walking. Maybe something here will land with you, too.

Enjoy:

• “You were built for this.”
• “Even this shall Pass”
• “What you are going through will be what you have gone through”
• “You do not need permission to matter”
• “You weren’t made to fit in- You were made to wake people wake up”
• “Keep your eye on the ball, feel what you need to feel, and adapt as you go. The game of life will take care of itself.” -Tim Ferris, Tribe of Mentors pg. 565
• “All Men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was their vanity: but the dreamers of the day are the dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” -T.E. Lawrence
• “The power broker in your life is the voice no one ever hears. How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice is what determines the quality of your own life. It is the master storyteller, and the stories we tell ourselves are our realities.” -Tim Ferris, Tribe of Mentors pg. 567
• “Reading, after a certain age [or amount of time] diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habit of thinking.” -Albert Einstein
• “Your heart is a million times more powerful than your brain.” -Jerome Jarre
• “Get up, get a notebook, and write to yourself the words that you most wish that somebody would say to you.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferris Show ep. 720
• “…Evolution is accidental. It does not ‘progress’ towards a goal.” -Frank Tallis, Mortal Secrets.
• “Dreams come true. You just have to be willing to work for them.” -Annie Mist Porisdottin
• “There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.” -Dostoevsky
• “It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their sufferings was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom- which can not be taken away- that makes life meaningful and purposeful.” -Viktor Frankl, Mans Search for Meaning, pg. 67
• “When I feel overwhelmed, I complain to my wife about it. After listening for 30 seconds patiently, she generally tells me to STFU. Then I meditate or work out.” -Sam Harris, Tim Ferris’s Tribe of Mentors
• “`To become a grandmaster, you must already be one’ [(Alexander Shabalov)] … I had to get back to work on perfecting myself before I could actually go about winning games.” -Maurice Ashley, Tribe of Mentors, pg. 369
• “It’s the road to paradise, and it starts in Hell. You have been chosen. Not by others, but by yourself. Welcome to winning.” -Tim Grover, Relentless
• “If you resist asking for too much, you will often get more.” -Evan Williams, Tribe of Mentors, pg. 402
• “What seems to be wanted is universal genious, and universal genious has always been is short suply. The experience of the human race indicated strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the univeral incompetent.” -Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive, pg. 18
• “If your going to be a phoenix you have to burn first.” -Rich Roll
• “Matter is idea which intellect forms, and only in the idea formed by intellect does matter exist.” -Schopenhauer, The world of will and Idea, pg. 22
• “Do not worry about people stealing an idea. If its original, you will have to ram it down their throats.” -Howard H. Aiken
• “It tells me that tenacity matters more than talent, and in life, that is certainly true.” -Bear Grylls
• “Often time the difference between winning and not loosing is most often not quitting.” -Walt Disney
• “Criticism is not failure. If your not being criticized your probably not doing anything exceptional.” -Neil Strauss
• “Learning to ignore things is one of the greatest paths to inner peace.” -Robert J. Sawyer
• “I was free to fuck up and get better.” -Patton Oswald
• “Ignore anyone who tells you to go for security over experience.” -Patton Oswald
• “It doesn’t meant that saying ‘no’ to something is not worth perusing. It just means that it isn’t worth ME perusing.” -Patton Oswald
• “So don’t listen to anyone who tells you what kind of work to do, how you should look, or what kind of movie to write.” -Ben Stiller
• “Knowledge is the beginning of practice. Doing is the completion of knowledge.” -Wang Yangming
• “Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, all your darkest dreams… They’re waiting for you to just let go.” -Tim Grover, Relentless