Wisdom

"The first wealth is health." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It can be hard to appreciate just how much the world will give you what you want after you stop waiting for it to give you what you deserve.

Stop waiting for the world to recognize your potential; start giving the world something positive. Don't wait for a friend's apology; reach out and reconnect. Instead of waiting for the perfect partner,... See more

Brain Food: Cold Water

Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.

– Unknown

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." — Lucy Larcom

90 percent of success is not getting distracted.

Brain Food: Seizing the Right Moments

What we see is sometimes not what is actually there. Or, in the words of Sherlock Holmes: “We see, but we do not observe.”

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward

Regarding "one of those days", when everything seems to go wrong: most of these aren't really all that bad, we just make them that way by noticing the everyday negative things more, and by creating opportunities for entropy to manifest simply by expecting it to. Most of "those" days can be conquered by doggedly refusing to accept a whole day of

"Who covets more is evermore a slave." — Robert Herrick