Blog — Quotes
5 quotes on identity + self-improvement
The golden rule—treat others as you would treat yourself.
The internal golden rule—treat yourself as others should have treated you.
When the ending is unknown, and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the fuck you are.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Self-indulgence means tying it to things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Well being is good luck, or good character.
The golden rule—treat others as you would treat yourself.
The internal golden rule—treat yourself as others should have treated you.
Added in 2026
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- The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between po…Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung
- Authenticityan essay
- When the ending is unknown, and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the fuck you a…David Goggins
- Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying…Marcus Aurelius
- Well being is good luck, or good character.Marcus Aurelius
- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with you…Heraclitus
Added in 2026
When the ending is unknown, and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the fuck you are.
Added in 2026
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- Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.James Baldwin
- Authenticityan essay
- Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying…Marcus Aurelius
- The golden rule—treat others as you would treat yourself.\ The internal golden rule—treat yours…unattributed
- Well being is good luck, or good character.Marcus Aurelius
- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with you…Heraclitus
Added in 2026
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny—it is the light that guides your way.
Added in 2026
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Along the same lines
- Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying…Marcus Aurelius
- Coloran essay
- The Fear of Missing Outan essay
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts t…William Arthur Ward
- The human soul degrades itself above all, when it does its best to become an abscess, a kind of…Marcus Aurelius
- Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. Throw away your…Marcus Aurelius
- Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. It c…Marcus Aurelius
- Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won…Marcus Aurelius
Added in 2026
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Self-indulgence means tying it to things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
Added in 2026
Along the same lines
- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with you…Heraclitus
- Coloran essay
- The Fear of Missing Outan essay
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts t…William Arthur Ward
- The human soul degrades itself above all, when it does its best to become an abscess, a kind of…Marcus Aurelius
- Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence. Throw away your…Marcus Aurelius
- Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been. It c…Marcus Aurelius
- Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won…Marcus Aurelius
Added in 2026
Well being is good luck, or good character.
Added in 2026
Along the same lines
- Authenticityan essay
- When the ending is unknown, and the distance is unknown, that’s when you know who the fuck you a…David Goggins
- Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying…Marcus Aurelius
- The golden rule—treat others as you would treat yourself.\ The internal golden rule—treat yours…unattributed
- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with you…Heraclitus
Added in 2026