quotes

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.

Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

We look at the world once, in childhood.

The rest is memory.

— Louise Gluck

The late great Mary Oliver’s advice for life ❣️ “To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.”

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The England midfielder Paul Gascoigne once said ‘I never predict anything and I never will.’

David Sumpter • Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game (Bloomsbury Sigma)

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson

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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”

— Henri Bergson

Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

MIT OpenCourseWare • How to Speak

From Patrick Winston’s How to speak session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&t=925s

“True nobility is being superior to your former self."

What Friendship feels like. Very true!