A Good Life
what does it mean to live a good life?
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A Good Life
surrendering is not a passive act, but the willingness to be changed; to accept and do the work, and then to leave a space where life moves through you.
“Write your obituary, then work backwards to live it.” – Buffett
Morgan Housel • Smart Things Smart People Said
“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”
“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”
– Henry Miller
– Henry Miller
Tina Roth Eisenberg • quotes – Page 8 – swissmiss
For over 99 percent of our species’ history we lived amidst scarcity. Thus you, dear reader, like me and everyone else, evolved to seek out high-reward, low-energy-needed-to-acquire goods. This strategy worked well for hundreds of thousands of years. But now, in modern times of abundance, it is backfiring. Like so many things, what works,... See more
Fred Dreier • Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture
From The Unbearable Lightness of Being:
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But … the heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes a man to be lighter than air, to... See more
No easy answers—but perhaps a few new questions.
Don’t give it all away. Don’t even give most of it away. Retrench. Be clear. With yourself, but not necessarily with others. Let the fame wave pass. Live by the sea.
He said it again: “Deepen the mystery. That’s it, isn’t it?”
Don’t give it all away. Don’t even give most of it away. Retrench. Be clear. With yourself, but not necessarily with others. Let the fame wave pass. Live by the sea.
He said it again: “Deepen the mystery. That’s it, isn’t it?”
Daniel Riley • Cillian Murphy Is the Man of the Moment
If you’re actually serious about treating burnout — yours, your partners, your future children’s — you have to be serious about treating it for people you might not even know. If you want to actually make life better, more livable, less of a slog for yourself, that involves making it better for a whole lot of other people as well. For that, you... See more