on life
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."
- 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
“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
On taking action…It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
James Clear • Masters of Habit: Rituals, Lessons, and Quotes from Marcus Aurelius
But what if your purpose is simply to build a good life? To raise kind children. To cook a little better each year. To read a few excellent books. To notice the seasons. To build meaningful relationships. To help others. To give time - and money if you can - to causes you care about.
Pamela Clapp • Why the French Don’t Obsess Over Purpose
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.
Sheldon Vanauken • A Severe Mercy
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
- I know that environmental influence is the most effective form of behavioral control. Accordingly, if you want radical change, radically change your environment. Being in the wrong city will cancel out years of self-improvement.