Peeps by @persistent
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Want leverage -> demand agency -> gain control -> realise true control doesn't exist -> pretend god -> get depression -> seek truth -> .......
Money is the first derivative of what actually matters - natural resources. Social leverage is the second derivative.
Who else has a masochistic relationship with equations?
The fastest way is straight. But you know you want some vibing on the way.
Life is not just about jumping from one peak to another.
Everything is about sex, except sex.
Health, Wealth and Relationships are 3 things you have to take part in even if you do not want to. Everything else gets built on top of these.
Home - outsourcing survival
School - outsourcing discipline and experience
Use them wisely.
You just one thing. One thing to be followed with absolute fanaticism, one thing to be not compromised with. One thing that is your way to be with your god. One thing that is the only truth for you.
Young want to appear old, old want to appear young. Humans are the only species who don't want to be who they are.
Avoid quarrels. You will find that most quarrels are weak on both sides.
God gave us our faces, said Granny, we give ourselves our expressions.
It is only through humility that we are able to preserve our dignity.
It's of no great consequence in this world who let's you down, so long as it isn't yourself
We have as much right to cry as we have to laugh. Men given to tears are good men.
Napoleon: ‘Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because, with good news, nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.’
If you don't love it, someone is going to obliterate you at it.
Before you enumerate another’s faults, take time to count to ten… ten of your faults.
Opportunity + Preparation = Success
@archimedes I hope you will build this streak to something amazing.
Contentment is easier to attain than happiness. I take as my guide the small ginger cat who arrives on my terrace every afternoon, to curl up in the sun and slumber peacefully for a couple of hours.
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
I can not do all the good in the world, but the world needs all the good I can do.
Life will always give us what we know we are worth. It never fails to take us at our own valuation.
Love, respect and forgiveness. Three things you need to have for YOURSELF.
We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm. - Winston Churchill
Be courteous especially in the face of anger and adversity.
You don't need to be with the market, just have to be with the truth. The market will follow.

You have to be old before you can appreciate being young. And then, of course, you can only look back on though with a certain wistfulness.
Help a stranger in distress, and one day you will receive help when you least expect it.
Never tell an unnecessary lie. The truth has great authority. - P.D.James
Every day no Christmas, an’ every day no rainy day.
There is no harm in sitting in an office and making money, but sometimes you must look out of the window. And look at the changing light.
Nothing can be loved too much, but all things can be loved in the wrong way.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Rather than making whole of space and time your competition make yourself your competition.
You expect somebody else to take care of your food and security while you have fun? Is that it ?

Pace yourself, time is life's ultimate consumption.
Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.
You will sometimes be punished when you do jot deserve it. Before giving vent to your indignation, reflect on how often you have deserved punishment without receiving it.
Politics is the art by which politicians obtain campaign contributions from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other. -Oscar Ameringer
The greatest victory is the one you win over yourself.
Study the face of nature and you will be never be bored.
Replying to @Aakash (0x19650f54e4b6bd5053520132d8bf677ffb765b1c)
Hey this is my first peepeth 😊✌️✌️
Welcome fellow Indian
Facebook is not a social media anymore, it is in itself a monopolized web. Opposite to what a decentralized web aims to be at least.
Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end.
The sage lives in yesterday. The dreamer in tomorrow; the plodder in today. The successful man combines all these.
Be like water. There is no stopping it. No matter how tiny the trickle, it's going to get somewhere.
Be true to yourself, and you will be true to others.
To find happiness, look halfway between too little and too much.