Naval Ravikant quotes on life

The quality of your mind is the quality of your life.

The measure of wealth is freedom. The measure of health is lightness. The measure of intellect is judgment. The measure of wisdom is silence. The measure of love is peace.

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.

Choose the non-emotional response to any given situation and see how much easier your life becomes.

The overscheduled life is not worth living.

Don’t settle, and don’t struggle. Life is what flows in between.

You’re offended when you fear that it might be true.

To measure the quality of your life, simply do nothing, and see how it feels.

If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you.

You won’t have inner peace until you give up your war against the world.

People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.

Yelling at strangers that you will never meet is a mental disorder.

It’s only the misfits who have a chance.

Your trauma creates you.

Knowledge is discovered collectively, wisdom is rediscovered individually.

Living a life of integrity pays off, but it takes a very long time.

The more it matters who said it, the less it actually matters.

Hope is the belief that this moment isn’t good enough.

The biggest cost of the attempt to thrive, is the worry. You even worry about the worrying.

In an age of abundance, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake leads to addiction.

A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.

Life hack: When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation, or fall asleep. Victory either way.

Accepting is no substitute for understanding.

No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.

Cool people are considered “cool” because they break the rules and get away with it.

When looking for a purpose to life, notice that most things are stepping stones, done for ulterior motives. True art, love, and play stand apart, as they are done for their own sakes.

Knowledge is discovered by all of us, each adding to the whole. Wisdom is rediscovered by each of us, one at a time.

If raising children was less rewarding than not doing it, the human race would have gone extinct.

Wisdom is the product of experience and honest reflection.

If you save your favorite video and audio for workouts only, you’ll look forward to exercise.

The people running newspapers, schools, and central banks have figured out that they can spend a hundred years of credibility in ten.

Signaling virtue is a vice.

People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.

Wisdom can’t be copied, it must be embodied.

The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.

The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone.

Simple heuristic: If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path that's more painful in the short term.

True, unconditional, love is the province of parents and saints.

The only people worth envying are the ones incapable of envy.

Life is a single player game.

Everyone starts out innocent. Everyone is corrupted. Wisdom is the discarding of vices and the return to virtue, by way of knowledge.

The gate to heaven is sealed with paradox.

If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.

They call it "peace of mind" but maybe it should be called "peace from mind."

Guilt is society’s voice speaking in your head.

Don't settle, and don't struggle.

If you create intersections, you’re going to have collisions.

The right to debate should not be up for debate.

Technology is the application of knowledge to control the natural world. It's the greatest driver of both human prosperity and our capacity for self-annihilation.

Sports is like Religion. It doesn't make any sense unless you grew up in it, and if you did, you picked an arbitrary side.