Quotes
Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.
Bernadette Jiwa • Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
“Problems don’t impede progress. Problems are the conduit of progress. No problems, no progress. That is why I reject utopia, because there are no problems there.” Kevin Kelly
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran
There are at least a billion people on earth at this moment who would consider their prayers answered if they could trade places with you.
- Sam Harris - Mind & Emotion
obsessing over quality often demands that you slow down, as the focus required to get better is simply not compatible with busyness.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
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You will be miserable to the degree that you are hung up on the notion that things should—must—go a certain way. If you have no fixed view, you remain elastic.
Alan Watts - The Self
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.