What makes you Arianna? If we could distill you and try to extract your essence, what is it that makes you you? - Vishen Lakhiani

Alan Watts famously said: Forget the money, because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living — that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing. Which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

I’d rather be joyfully deluded than bitchy, negative, and whiny over tiny things that bother negative people every day.

We don’t have to choose between Buddha or badass. The idea is to be both. Indeed, sometimes the only way to be effective at one is to master the other.