Beautiful Sentiments
Author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury on the difference between critics and creators:
"Those who don't build must burn."
Source: Fahrenheit 451
"Those who don't build must burn."
Source: Fahrenheit 451
3-2-1: On peace of mind, the power of focus, and how to learn faster
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.”
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water
5-Bullet Friday — Tips from Sam Altman’s Coach, Eye Rejuvenation, Cellular Data Tricks, Tasty Coffee Dust, and More
To write a good memoir you must become the editor of your own life, imposing on an untidy sprawl of half-remembered events a narrative shape and an organizing idea. Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Maybe introduce this idea of the mini-memoir
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy
Glennon Doyle • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
"If you're 37... Instead of regretting that you can't wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you're 90 and you've woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again."
3-2-1: On good genes, personal responsibility, and how to appreciate your precious time
The good news is that we have the option to be responsible for far more than we imagine