Quotes
Packy McCormick and
Quotes
"Italy is known for tomatoes. Thailand for chilies. Germany for sauerkraut.
But tomatoes originated in Peru. Thailand imported chilies from Central America. Sauerkraut started in China.
Everything is a remix—and the world is better for it. Share what you know. Learn from others."
James Clear
"Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
-Charlie Munger
I've found that my clients' discontents are often rooted in an unmet longing for wildness, mystery, and a meaningful engagement with the world.
- Bill Plotkin
- Bill Plotkin
River Kenna • Tweet
A Buddhist saying on the ineffectiveness of anger: "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else — you are the one who gets burned."
Cut a chrysalis open and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly... No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
— Pat Barker
— Pat Barker
The Only Thing to Do
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, why you must sing, dance and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
—Krishnamurti
—Krishnamurti
Steve Schlafman • Tweet
"For a few weeks, I started each morning by writing “What do I actually want?” at the top of a blank page.
It’s surprising how useful it is to keep asking the same question. Each time, my answer became more precise.
Once I knew what I wanted, I turned it into action steps."
James Clear
To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh