Absolutely bodied by my readwise today
"No man was more comprehensively doomed than him whose chief source of gratification was making favorable impressions on some particular woman."—Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Absolutely bodied by my readwise today "No man was more comprehensively doomed than him whose chief source of gratification was making favorable impressions on some particular woman."—Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
“Those who suffer for others do more damage to humanity than those who enjoy themselves,”
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
However, who wins empire, fortune, and fame but loses in love has lost in everything.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
but he who is incapable of organizing and explaining his thoughts in written form, and unable to engage the reader with a bit of allure, is someone who egregiously wastes both his spare time and his words.
Quintus Curtius • Tusculan Disputations
As noted, the certainty of downfall would disturb a human being, so that although only the briefest of existences had been allotted him, he did not fulfill the possibility he had in fact been granted. “To what purpose?” he would say, or “Why?” he would say, or “What good will it do?” he would say: and then he would not develop the whole of his pote
... See moreSøren Kierkegaard • The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses
“He who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary.” —Seneca