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We do not lack ability. We just lack courage. It all comes down to courage.
Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
As I stared at myself in the mirror, I thought about what it would be like to paint my own portrait. Say I were to try, what sort of self would I end up painting? Would I be able to find even a shred of affection for myself? Would I be able to discover even one thing shining within me?
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Before you know it, you start to see each and every person, everyone in the whole world, as your enemy.
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Haruki Murakami: siła prostoty i obsesji, czyli jak biegać, pisać i żyć
Przemek Gerschmannsubstack.com
it can be difficult to stay motivated and complete large technical projects. A method that works really well for me is to continuously see real results and to order my work based on that.
Mitchell Hashimoto • My Approach to Building Large Technical Projects
The inspiration for the book shop I found myself in is Morioka Shoten, “a single room with a single book” store, in Tokyo. It sells only one book. More precisely, it sells multiple copies of one title that changes weekly, with a small book-inspired art exhibition. It has spawned a network of similar book stores all around the world.
Was it when you got fat, or bald, or got bad plastic surgery that couldn’t disguise the fact that you were fat and bald?
Hanya Yanagihara • A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller (Picador Collection)
To shine a spotlight on here and now is to go about doing what one can do now, earnestly and conscientiously.