Inspirational Bites for Daily Living

Short stories, thoughts, wisdom, quotes and inspiration for day to day life.

by simon and · updated 2d ago

“We’re a species that rushes through everything, then complains that time flies.”

Steve Maraboli
simon added 3mo ago
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

-H Thurman
from (1) Home / Twitter
simon added 2mo ago
A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself. Until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.
from Tweet by Alan Watts | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom
simon added 2mo ago
“The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.”
from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
simon added 1mo ago
“Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world.”
from How Emotions Are Made by Maria Popova
simon added 4mo ago
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."

(Ursula K. Le Guin)
from Tweet by Vidhika Bansal
simon added 3mo ago
During the Covid pandemic, Pete and I spoke by phone. In the beginning, I made the mistake of trying to advise him about how he could lift his depression. He had earlier gone to Vietnam to perform eye surgeries for those who were too poor to afford them. I told him he should do that again, since he found it so tremendously rewarding. I did not real
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from How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair? by David Brooks
simon added 2mo ago
If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
from 100 Simple Truths
simon added 3mo ago
“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,

But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.

For to the bee a flower is a fountain o... See more
from A quote from The Prophet
Robin Good added 2mo ago

from (1) Home / Twitter

from Tweet by Alan Watts | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom

from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

from How Emotions Are Made by Maria Popova

from Tweet by Vidhika Bansal

from How Do You Serve a Friend in Despair? by David Brooks

from 100 Simple Truths

from A quote from The Prophet