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Quotes that caught my heart.

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”

Chinese proverb

Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes

So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.

Ryan Holiday • Ego Is the Enemy

You cannot force good conversations to happen. You have to allow and invite them

Sasha Chapin • Making Normal Conversations Better - by Sasha Chapin Making Normal Conversations Better

religion is scalable mental health care, its universality hints at how vital it's been for providing: - a wholesome memeplex - teaching stories - soothing practices (prayer, song) - beauty (cathedrals, poetry) - community talk therapy and drugs are... See more

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To invest is to love....

Where you invest your resources your habits follow, and from our habits then our heart follows

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

(John Quincy Adams, via Dense Discovery)

What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return-and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended? If we have only so much attention to give, and only so much time on this earth, we might want to think about reinfusing our attention and our communication with the intention that... See more

Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy