Thought provoking
Great ideas rarely materialize out of thin air — or books for that matter. They emerge from experience, perception, and pragmatism.
life is a giant experiment where you get to explore, discover, define and achieve your own version of success, not the one prescribed by society.
Life is a creative adventure that invites us to become comfortable with discomfort, a journey where we continually experiment, make mistakes, learn, and grow.
Your sanity depends on you finding the comedy in the chaos
Dylan O'Sullivan • Tweet
I know that growth can be imperceptible and quiet. I’ve accepted that. Eventually progress loses its shine of exponential improvement simply because as each year goes by, each year becomes a smaller fraction of life in its entirety. There’s nothing to feel too bad about. Maybe the changes are incremental, but important. Maybe the emotions are... See more
in praise of slowing down
meaningful productivity often comes not from hurrying things up but from letting them take the time they take, surrendering to what in German has been called Eigenzeit, or the time inherent to a process itself.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Life has an unerring way of balancing good and bad, rather like math. For every positive, there’s a negative; for every gain, a loss; for every plus, a minus.
Dianne Freeman • A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery Book 4)
In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.