Charles Harris
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Charles Harris
The foundation for greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. - Eckhardt Tolle
- still one of my favorite lines of all time: and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? - charles bukowski
- Patience. By nature, I’m impatient – with myself, sometimes with others. I like to move forward. I like to get things done. When there’s a problem, I prefer to fix it now . That’s true both professionally and when it comes to interpersonal relationships. When I’m trying to close a deal, I’ll find myself thinking, “What can I do to make it happen fa... See more
from Modern Meditations: Kirsten Green by Mario Gabriele
In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- I do like the rush of rushing. And to an extent, I am quite good at rushing—at doing things in a high-intensity, high-pressure way. But my sense is that I am much better off when I enjoy the pause, slow down, be where I am, and build strength patiently. I’m better off when I remember to take my time, to realize that the journey is long and it shoul... See more
from slow down
I’m reading a wonderful book by the French Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard. He muses on the subject of happiness, and a book he later wrote on the subject: he captures it well: “My book was to be a work of interdisciplinary synthesis, taking into account the views of great thinkers of the past, in the West as in the East, as well as research on “wel
... See more“Pleasure is the happiness of the fool; happiness is the pleasure of the wise.”
-Jules Barney d’Aurevilly
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
-Jack Kornfeld
- “Limit everything to the essential but do not remove the poetry.”
— Dieter Rams, quoted in Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Ramsfrom Dieter Rams