The reason the knives are so sharp online is because the pie is so small.
Stillness is what aims the archer’s arrow. It inspires new ideas. It sharpens perspective and illuminates connections.
Snark encourages the fakeness and stupidity it is supposedly trying to rail against.
Sherman had a good rule he tried to observe. Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe,
Research shows that while goal visualization is important, after a certain point our mind begins to confuse it with actual progress. The same goes for verbalization. Even
No harshness, no deprivation, no toil should interfere with our empathy toward others.
Most trouble is temporary . . . unless you make that not so. Recovery is not grand, it’s one step in front of the other. Unless your cure is more of the disease.
Many are harmed by fear itself, and many may have come to their fate while dreading fate. —SENECA, OEDIPUS, 992
Let’s make one thing clear: we never earn the right to be greedy or to pursue our interests at the expense of everyone else. To think otherwise is not only egotistical, it’s counterproductive.
It’s far better that we become pragmatic and adaptable—able to do what we need to do anywhere, anytime. The place to do your work, to live the good life, is here.
It is said of the Jews, deprived of a stable homeland for so long, their temples destroyed, and their communities in the Diaspora, that they were forced to rebuild not physically but within
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If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters—don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself. —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION,...
I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. —JOSEPH CONRAD
How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us! —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.8
False ideas about yourself destroy you. For
Every habit and capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running … therefore, if you want to do something make a habit of it, if you don’t wan...
Duris dura franguntur.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough?
Doing new things invariably means obstacles. A new path is, by definition, uncleared. Only with persistence and time can we cut away debris and remove impediments. Only in struggling with the impedime...