Shared Joy is double Joy, shared Sorrow is half Sorrow.

unconditional love - to yourself

"What if instead, you loved yourself, fat body and all? What if you loved yourself, laziness and all? What if you loved yourself, all that is ugly and incompetent and mean, along with the beauty and brilliance and kindness?"

From zenhabits blog

"the disturbing thirst to improve one's self"

From "how to live on 24 hours a day"

"Possible is not enough"

MACHEN

“Get action. Do things; be sane, don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.” -Teddy Roosevelt

Avoiding downsides

"Because we have a bias towards positive action, its hard for us to focus on how avoiding downside is a plus; we recognize when things go right, but fail to notice when something bad didnt happen."

From "The Art of manliness" Blog


This is a rather general thought: Reference to book from Taleb: Antifragile - get it!