Thought provoking

Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.

—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

“There are two kinds of people in the world… and who is not both of them?” — James Richardson

“There is no failure in sports.”  — Giannis Antetokounmpo

we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.

This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo

“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”

-Kevin Ashton

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." — Carl Jung

“No man was ever wise by chance.” — Seneca

“The most selfish act of all is kindness, because its reward is so much greater than the investment.” — Tom Peters