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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more

There is some value to serendipity, but we are overconsuming novelty and under consuming purpose

101 Additional Advices

Kevin Kelly

Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.

“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”

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C.Neil Strait

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things... See more