Madhuri
“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations
... See more" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurmanfrom Aliveness: Reframing Productivity by Thomas Klaffke
“The narcissism of small differences.’ That’s a phrase coined by Freud. ‘Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen.’
It means, I think, that when two things are very similar, you end up inflating the small differences between them far more than you would the larger differences between two less similar things”
- björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy
You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
from The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest
“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger
Day by day, I resonate with this more.
- Why do furniture designers keep designing new chairs? We know it's not to solve the problem of "sitting." The chair is simply the medium. The true goal is something bigger: to inspire, to broaden our understanding of what's possible, or express something unique about what it means to be alive today.
from No more boring apps