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 Hard times create strong men.
Strong man create good times.
Good times create weak man.
Weak man create hard times. 
 All the people we meet in life teach us something. Some teach us not to be like them. 
 I'm not nice. I'm a good person.
There's a difference.

My life got better when I realized I didn't have to be nice. Nice got me ran over, stressed out and disrespected. 
 Hara hachi bu. 
 Any sufficiently advanced tecnology is indistinguishable from magic. 
 If you want a new idea, read an old book. 
 Where your fear is, there is your task. 
 I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. (Nietzsche) 
 You get rich by taking lots of risk with small amounts of money and you stay rich by taking small amounts of risk with lots of money. 
 Art is never finished, only abandoned. (Leonardo da Vinci) 
 What you do want done to yourself, do to others. 
 What you want done to yourself, do to others. 
 The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. (Leonardo da Vinci) 
 Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. 
 One of the healthiest habits to learn: take nothing personally. 
 To live outside the law, you must be honest. 
 Order is fundamental. 
 No one will ask how long it took to be done, but they will say whether it is beautiful or ugly. 
 I do eternal things. 
 From a mistake, you have to make a detail. 
 Knowledge isn't free.
You have to pay attention. 
 There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind. (Miyamoto Musashi) 
 Protect those who protect you.
Loyalty means everything. 
 Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge. (Carl Jung) 
 A good warrior needs every weapon. 
 Tomorrow is another day, too. 
 You live for satisfactions. 
 What you do with time, time also preserves. 
 Courage is the most important virtue. 
 Almost is like nothing. 
 Ideas come by working. 
 If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. 
 Your mind is a weapon.
Keep it loaded. 
 Don't ruin the present because of a past that has no future. 
 Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. 
 If you can imagine it, you can do it. (Enzo Ferrari) 
 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. 
 Two things define you, your patience when you have nothing, your attitude when you have everything. 
 People will forget what you said or what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. 
 We think too much and feel too little. (Charlie Chaplin) 
 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. 
 Pametniji ne popušta. Pametniji napušta. 
 Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. 
 Strong people break too, we just do it quietly, rebuild and keep moving. 
 It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note - it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong. 
 Art is never completed.
It is really a question of how much you leave undone at the end. 
 It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken man. 
 To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 
 Life is meant to be lived and enjoyed, not perfect. 
 The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. 
 If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. 
 Skills buy you income.
Income buys you assets.
Assets buy you freedom. 
 Forest = For rest 
 If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive. 
 If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people. 
 Work hard but make sure you can enjoy life too. 
 All humans have 3 lives: 
public, private and secret. 
 Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. 
 If you can’t decide, the answer is no. 
 Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much. 
 If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. 
 Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do.
Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. 
 The secret is there is no secret:
1. Consistency over intensity.
2. Progress over perfection.
3. Fundamentals over fads.
Over and over again. 
 Less people. Less bullshit. Keep your circle smáll. 
 Have more than you show, speak less than you know. 
 Balance.
Never let success go to your head, and never let failure go to your heart. 
 Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. 
 The greatest wealth is to live content with little. 
 Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. 
 Learn to control your mouth, mood and money. 
 I have had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. 
 An intelligent person always hides 3 things about himself:
1. his weaknesses
2. his sources of wisdom
3. his true aspirations. 
 Never tell anyone what you are doing untill it is done. 
 Only 3 types of people tell the truth: kids, the drunk and the angry. 
 Be patient with results, and impatient with actions. 
 Be confident. Even when you're not. 
 Less negative thinking is much more important than positive thinking. 
 The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time & Patience. 
 Train your mind to be calm in every situation. 
 Trust in time, especially when time says no. 
 To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. 
 It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. 
 My greatest motivation are people who don’t belive in me. 
 You can only win when your mind is stronger than your emotions. 
 You lose value when you are too accessible. 
 No one stays with you permanently, learn to survive alone. 
 Don’t love too soon.
Don’t trust too fast.
Don’t judge too soon.
Don’t quit too early.
Don’t expect too high.
Don’t talk too much. 
 A strong person does not seek revenge. They move on and let Karma do the dirty work. 
 Let Karma do the dirty work. 
 If it doesn’t bring peace, profit, or purpose then don’t give it your time, energy, or attention. 
 Film what’s empty,
empty what’s full,
and scratch where it itches. 
 Fill what’s empty,
empty what’s full,
and scratch where it itches. 
 You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honour. 
 Slow success builds character, fast success builds Ego. 
 Let your plans be dark and inpenetrable as night, and then when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. (Sun Tzu) 
 One kind word can warm three winter months. (Japanese proverb) 
 Owning less is great. Wanting less is even better. 
 The more you learn, the more you earn. 
 The first hour after waking up, no talking.