The strongest are gentle.
The smartest are quiet.
The bravest are calm.
The wealthiest are simple.
The happiest are private.
The most confident are humble.
The most secure seek no validation.
Real power doesn't need to prove itself.
I have never seen an animal commit suicide.
I find it interesting that animals, especially apex predators, don't appear to conceptualize “hopelessness” the way humans do.
Even at the brink of death, they fight, bite, claw, and persist without turning their suffering into despair.
"One of the bad things to teach children is how to write.
Writing forces you into a very narrow channel of thinking.
Socrates, Plato and Aristotle never wrote anything"
Jeffrey Epstein on how writing constrains thought