defining the self, designing the life
by Kojo · updated 3mo ago
defining the self, designing the life
- “There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
— Christopher Morleyfrom Apprenticeship by Farnam Street
Kojo added 3mo ago
- I think life is a kind of laboratory where you can try anything.
from The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Deborah Treisman
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- The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. There is nothing sadder than a person who can’t grow, who cannot turn over a new leaf, who cannot take a leap of faith forward, into the dark.
from You Have to Be Willing to Change
Kojo added 4mo ago
Life isn’t about finding yourself but about creating yourself.
from The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth by David C. Baker
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Any finite life—even the best one you could possibly imagine—is therefore a matter of ceaselessly waving goodbye to possibility.
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
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life is the very definition of uncertainty.
from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
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- When life and existence is seen as an experience, we also drop many of the scripted expectations we have of life and suddenly life becomes this constant unfolding, everything is new and everything is a journey.
from Ten Ways to Breathe Meaning into Existence by Naida
Kojo added 4mo ago
- For those of us struggling and aching to say something different, to be distinctly our own, to reject the stifling rationality of the world around us in favor of the symbolic, the creative, and the divine, creating a world is our path.
from Worldbuilding is creative resilience by Yancey Strickler
Kojo added 5mo ago
The ability to choose what we think and so direct our thoughts is a creative act of volition of enormous significance.
from Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind by John Kehoe
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