Life Advice

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.

Human life is not a competition in which everyone places somewhere between one to eight billion. That’s because each person has different capacities, aims, relationships, projects and identities. These are all relevant to deciding what a good life is for them.

- NYT magazine, The Ethicist, Kwame Anthony Appiah

21 best ideas in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self Reliance (via justin murphy)

1. Most people do not trust their own beliefs. The essence of genius is simply to trust yourself—to infer that whatever seems most true in your heart is most true in reality—and for everybody else, too, despite whatever they may claim.

2. There is hardly anything more painful

My yoga teacher always starts class with this line:

"Congrats. The hardest part is over. You showed up."

I feel like that mindset applies to most other things.

The more grownup I get, the more I wonder about giving advice. I do best when listening to youngsters tell me truths about the world we’ve made for them. It feels sometimes like we all have to talk all the time, in ways at once aphoristic and immediate, so lately I try to be at least as often on receive as on transmit.

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