"This is your mission, your calling: to act without hope. To not hope for better. To be better. In this moment and the next. And the next. Everything is fucked. And hope is both the cause and the effect of that fuckedness."

Section: 1, Chapter: 2

"Amor fati, for Nietzsche, meant the unconditional acceptance of all life and experience: the highs and the lows, the meaning and the meaninglessness. It meant loving one's pain, embracing one's suffering. It meant closing the separation between one's desires and reality not by striving for more desires, but by simply desiring reality."

Section: 1, Chapter: 5

But, Taleb says, there is a third type of system, and that is the “antifragile” system. Whereas a fragile system breaks down and a robust system resists change, the antifragile system gains from stressors and external pressures.

Section: 2, Chapter: 6

"This is the most important realization a person can make about pain: the moment we believe we 'shouldn't' have pain in life is the moment we feel the most pain. This is what is so devastating about the self-help industry. The idea that you can simply self-help away your problems is a philosophical stance that creates more problems because it denies the very existence of problems in the first place. Pain is not a problem. Pain is the experience of life itself."

Section: 2, Chapter: 7

"We all have stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, stories that define our sense of self. When these stories are disrupted or invalidated, it can send us into crisis. But it can also open the door to writing a new story. We are the stories we tell ourselves. And to become a better story is to become a better self."

Section: 2, Chapter: 9