Wisdom

“In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.”

Plato

“Hygge is humble and slow. It is choosing rustic over new, simple over posh and ambience over excitement. In many ways, hygge might be the Danish cousin to slow and simple living.”

Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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9 Life Lessons by Tim Minchin

You don’t have to have a dream. Be micro-ambitious, work with pride on whatever is in front of you. Be careful on long term dreams, if you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye.
Don’t seek happiness. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get

Steven Schlafman added 8mo

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books (Dostoevsky and Dickens) that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves c... See more

Steven Schlafman added 7mo

Steven Schlafman added 8mo

"Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are."

—Rudyard Kipling

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