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The raw feed. One-liners that hit like a gut punch, quotes from men who'd seen real war, and the 2am thoughts that don't make it to the timeline. Filter it.
worrying is a sin.
self belief is self built.
be more retarded, just do it.
reminder: freedom is taken not given.
you have to be delusional.
it's all cringe until it fucking works.
how to beat everyone? have a greater sense of urgency.
your goals should sound delusional to people operating at normal levels.
"Everything will spike your cortisol if you're a pussy." What a line.
"I wage war with myself and I will destroy myself, or I will be reborn, that is all."
— Albert Camus
"Even if the skies were shorter than my knees, I would not kneel."
— Cyrus the Great
"The wise man does immediately what the fool does eventually."
— Machiavelli
"I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible."
— Nietzsche
"You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."
— Voltaire
"Risk taking is the highest virtue, the only signal that you cannot fake."
— Nassim Taleb
"The strongest prison you will be held in is your own idea of yourself."
— Rockefeller
"The tragedy in life is to be so timid you don't play hard enough."
— Charlie Munger
If you ever feel behind, remember: until he was 30, Joseph Stalin had accomplished nothing — a homeless thief who kept getting arrested. It's never over. It's never too late.
Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates as a kid. They set a ransom. He mocked them and told them to demand a bigger one. Once released, he hunted them down and killed them all.
A young Napoleon visits a fortune teller. "You'll never be great — you lack the line of destiny." So he pulls a knife and carves the line into his own palm. "Then I shall make my own destiny."
A boy asks Mozart how to write a symphony. "You're too young, study more first." The boy: "But you were writing symphonies at 10." Mozart: "But I wasn't asking people how to do it."
You're never too old for a total rebrand. Before 30, Osama Bin Laden was a womanising billionaire playboy who hung out in bars and supported Arsenal. Wasn't even religious.
reframe discipline as self-worship and watch how easy it gets.
Doors open for the delusional. Everyone else is too reasonable, too rational, too logical to knock. Audacity is rare. Be delusional.
Luck is engineered. Right rooms, right people, right time. Perpetual motion. Repeated risk taking. No "I'm unlucky" loser self-talk. Do this long enough and luck finds you.
Private hours determine your public results. Reading becomes conversation. Diet and exercise become energy. Discipline becomes confidence. What you did in private becomes known.
Fastest way a young man ruins his life? Waiting for permission to start living. Optimising, not executing. Planning, not doing. Getting ready for a moment that never comes.
Nietzsche's test for any decision: if you had to live this exact life over and over, infinitely, would you still make this choice? Eternal recurrence.
brother your entire bloodline is chanting your name.
relax. trust god. you will never regret putting your trust in God.
its never over. never doom. never kill yourself. never goon. never fade. never waste. never regret. never stop. never despair. never stop praying. never not be in awe.
create. you've consumed enough. god wants you to start creating.
i love being optimistic like why wouldn't shit work out for me.
me realising i'm not an overthinker, im just a fucking genius.
Daily fire,
straight to you
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