Repeat Great Words, Repeat Them Stubbornly
no matter how hard life may be, the way we ought to live becomes a distillate of few words. The essentials are familiar not because they are trite, but because they are true.
David Von Drehle • The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
The first hard choice
You must spend your life walking through fields of lotuses, listening to the beautiful music of the sirens.
Always, you could come closer to the sirens, and risk destroying yourself.
Always, you could eat more of the lotus, and you could choose to abandon what matters.
This is the first hard choice. You must choose to be the kind
... See moreDavid R. MacIver • The First Hard Choice
To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
the battle must be fought anew every day.