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Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who 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
... See moreIn this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers,... See more
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stuartjeffries • The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.
David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
If your desire is genuinely unleashed and you are obsessively focused on what you want, you will be called to do whatever it takes to make your dream a reality. There are no limits to the energy and flexibility you'll have in pursuit of what you want. In your heart, you know massive action is the cure-all. - Tony Robbins
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
The biggest lesson I’ve learned over the years is the concept of progress over perfection. If you strive for perfection, you may find yourself caught in a state of non-action oriented decision making that actually prevents the brand from moving forward.
Sheena Brady, Founder, Tease
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
— Ralph Waldo Emerson