We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Most biographies and autobiographies are each merely a slightly different packaging of the well-known fact that success rarely comes quickly or easily.

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Because of nothing but training, some people can effortlessly do something we cannot do even terribly.

Comfort rarely produces great art.

Most love songs were inspired, not by love, but by loneliness, regretfulness, or horniness.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.