You are like a hunter: your knowledge of every detail of the forest and of the ecosystem as a whole will give you many more options for survival and … - Robert Greene

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

Most of us live in a semi-somnambulistic state: we do our daily tasks and the days fly by. The two exceptions to this are childhood and those moments when we are in love. In both cases, our emotions are more engaged, more open and active. And we equate feeling emotional with feeling more alive.