Life Choices
two paths: the money path and the life path . The money path is the belief that “one day when I sort this out I’ll get to do what I want.” Suffer now for a future payoff. The alternative is something he calls the “life path.” This is the idea that you can “do what you love and the more you follow it you will have your needs met with and without... See more
Paul Millerd • Leaving Money on The Table | #250
Rarely in our life is money a place of genuine freedom, joy, or clarity, yet we routinely allow it to dictate the terms of our lives and often to be the single most important factor in the decisions we make about work, love, family, and friendship.
Notes & Highlights for The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
By looking around himself a man can find out how to use the little virtues—moderately and when they are necessary—he can drink them in from the air, because the little virtues are of a kind that is common among men. But one cannot breathe in the great virtues from the surrounding air,
Notes & Highlights for The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; nor shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one’s neighbour and self-denial; not a desire for... See more
Notes & Highlights for The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
Henrik Karlssonhenrikkarlsson.xyzThe best long term fuel source is some repeated act that energizes you in a way that then lets you become a generative person, who uses the energy to make things for others. A great question is "what is your renewable fuel source?"
Patrick OShaughnessy • Tweet
she had “wanted to lead what I thought of as a ‘normal’ existence, but I soon found I wasn’t as normal away from the theater as in it.”
She concluded, “Acting is my highest form of intelligence, the time when I use the best part of my brain.”
She concluded, “Acting is my highest form of intelligence, the time when I use the best part of my brain.”
Anita Gates • Glynis Johns, Tony Winner for ‘A Little Night Music,’ Dies at 100
So my children live with my mother, and so far they do not have worn-out shoes. But what kind of men will they be? I mean, what kind of shoes will they have when they are men? What road will they choose to walk down? Will they decide to give up everything that is pleasant but not necessary, or will they affirm that everything is necessary and that... See more
2022 edition
Instrumentalization is the force that shapes our identities into tools. We identify with what we do , how we're used, and how we're valued more. We lack a sense of agency and feel beholden to those individuals or institutions that would use us as tools.
Do we become homeowners, for instance, because we want to own a home ? Or because social,... See more
Do we become homeowners, for instance, because we want to own a home ? Or because social,... See more