words to live by
Via Tom White on Substack.
Tend to the small things. More people are defeated by blisters than by mountains.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”
—Attributed to Mark Twain (no one seems to know for sure if he actually said this, but in any case it’s a good line)
Efficiency is highly overrated; goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals vacations, breaks, aimless walks and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.
What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite... See more
Glenn F. Chesnut • The God-Shaped Hole in the Human Soul
Blaise Pascal
