If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then passion is a form of mental retardation- d… - Ryan Holiday

We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free.” —

And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

In failure or adversity, it’s so easy to hate. Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible. It’s a distraction too; we don’t do much else when we’re busy getting revenge or investigating the wrongs that have supposedly been done to us.