on life
Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn’t it? Now the people are waiting for something.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
building a world for yourself creates magnetism in the purest sense
It is easy to tell how you are doing in life. When you go outside, how beautiful is the flower? That is how you know.
– Brianna Wiest
... See more“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To hims
The way to greater confidence is not to reassure ourselves of our own dignity; it’s to come to peace with our inevitable ridiculousness
— Alain de Botton in ‘On Confidence’
‘Make no effort to join society. Stay right where you are and wait for society to form around you. Because it most certainly will.’
Jo Tinsley • The Odditorium
Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other."