"How much could I lose?" is not merely a financial question.

If I make this choice:

- How much time could I lose?

- How much sanity could I lose?

- How much reputation could I lose?

- How much happiness could I lose?

Opportunity cost is about a lot more than money."

(James Clear)

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

(Vincent van Gogh)

"Life rarely changes in a positive way without an increase in responsibility.

That can mean taking ownership of your health or committing to a relationship or starting a business.

Whatever it is, if you want the trajectory to change, the amount of responsibility usually has to change."

(James Clear)

"What you risk reveals what you value.”

(Jeanette Winterson)

"Feelings are much like waves: we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf."

(Jonatan Mårtensson)

“The greatest gift that you could ever give another is the gift of your expectation of their success.”

(Abraham Hicks)

“The events that make your blood boil reveal what matters most to you. Anger rises when your core values are in jeopardy. With reflection, it becomes a mirror for seeing your principles more clearly. With action, it becomes a map for making change to protect what you hold dear.”

(Adam Grant)

“What you are is where you have been, what you’ll be is what you do now.”

(Buddha)

"You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off."

(Aretha Franklin)

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

(Rumi)

"If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want."

(Oscar Wilde)

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always our self we find in the sea.”

(E.E. Cummings)