on life
“whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal”
Already in 1877, Robert Louis Stevenson called busyness a symptom of deficient vitality, and observed a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that’s all there is.”
Bill Perkins • Bill Perkins - Die With Zero_ Getting All You Can From Your Money and Your Life-HMH Books
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
– Michael J. Fox
Generous people view their possessions as temporary; they are joining in a bigger story. Generous people are always looking toward the needs of others by using what they have been given. Things don’t matter; people do. They open their house to others. They open their pool for parties. They let people borrow their cars. They freely give, with no
... See moreJeff Shinabarger • More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity
the good life, the life without the pressure of time. A life we could lead together, even if we had to sell apples along the road.