Quotes to live by

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…

— “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

There are about 10,000 operational satellites in orbit, she explained, with almost 8,000 of those being LEO, and they’re moving at 7 km a second and 10 times the speed of a bullet.

Things that are most fulfilling are hard to start, easy to quit. Things that are least fulfilling are easy to start, hard to quit.

Every. Single. Time.

Does the value of an experience—whether joyful or tragic—depend on the act of sharing it with others? If so, is the meaning of life inherently tied to relationships and community, or can solitude offer a comparable sense of fulfillment and purpose in moments of significance?

When Wellington Lytle checked into a Milwaukee hotel after the 1929 stock market crash, he was down to his last four cents and emptied of hope.

But before he put a revolver to his head, he took out a pen and left the following note:

“My body should go to science, my soul to [Secretary of Treasury] Andrew W. Mellon, and sympathy to my creditors.”

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“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”

Haley Nahman • #197: What is "personal style"?

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased."

-- Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)

Six months or six years from now… you’ll still be behind on the promises you made to yourself.

Not because you're not capable - but because change was optional… and you chose comfort.

Everybody wants to fight for their rights,
but nobody wants to talk about their responsibilities.