Your actions reveal how badly you want something. If you keep saying something is a priority but you never act on it, then you don’t really want it. It’s time to have an honest conversation with yourself. Your actions reveal your true motivations. Atomic Habits

To judge the appearances we receive of things, we should need a judicatory instrument; to verify this instrument, we should need a demonstration; to rectify this demonstration, we should need an instrument: so here we are arguing in a circle. Seeing the senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason, so here we are retreating backwards to all eternity. Essays

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. The Fellowship of the Ring

And life itself spoke this secret to me. "Behold," it said, "I am that which must ever overcome itself." Thus Spoke Zarathustra