Kamal Ravikant On Why Self-Love Is Everything

If you're going to make a commitment to love yourself, you have to leave the shackles of the past behind. Forgive yourself, and then you start to love yourself.

If you look at any tribal or primitive society, there's always a rite of passage where you go from boy to man or girl to woman. You're challenged, tested, and welcomed into the tribe ... We miss that in our society. I don't think college and partying does it.

Leap, and the net will appear.

You can't hold humans to the criteria of gods, but we seem to do that ... When you realize someone's humanity, it's very easy to forgive them.

I never felt like I fit in anywhere. I was a shy kid. I just read like crazy ... Books were my refuge as a child.

With startups—to be able to build a company from scratch and go take it somewhere—you basically have to be able to do everything.

Personal evolutions begin with some act of destruction. This lends itself to the belief that these amazing epiphanies about the human condition emanate out of the ashes of various forms of disaster.

To be a phoenix, you got to burn.

Life is like a building a startup. No company is a rocket ship straight up to the right; it's loops.

What's the best workout? What's the best nutrition plan? It's the one you can do consistently.