lifestyle

What is worthwhile?

Eli

gradually discovered that ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened.

Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living

“The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.”

Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.

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

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill - We make a living by what we get, but...

Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.

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

Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519

It seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.

theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift

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.

Daily Review | Readwise