on life
- I know that freedom is earned by confronting things that embarrass and trigger you, over and over again, until you are cringe-proof in your desired environment.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
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
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
“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.“
On taking action…It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.