rob hardy
@robhardy
writer of manifestos, petter of cats. in devotional pursuit of a more beautiful internet 🌱
rob hardy
ungated.life
"It is not enough for a man to feel the divine flame burning in him; unless he goes into the concentrated, slogging business of learning the techniques of expression, his genius will be of no use to anyone." —Oswald Chambers
Matt Cardin • Tweet
Sometimes the best way to achieve something great is to stop trying to achieve a particular great thing. In other words, greatness is possible if you are willing to stop demanding what that greatness should be.
Joel Lehman • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Michael Meade • Tweet
self trust and
The weird thing is that the word “leader” itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t cliché or boring at all; in fact he’s sort of the opposite of cliché and boring.... See more
Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with, nor is it just somebody you happen to
David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman
David Foster Wallace on leadership
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
-John Steinbeck
Resonance is a form of action that is fundamentally a (noninstrumental) relationship. Resonance is dependent on a true encounter with something other. All true relationship (whether human-to-human, creature-to-creation, or divine-to-human) must take the form of differentiation that allows for word and response.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin
Ayishat Akanbi • Sentences That Have Shaped Me
Human beings are always, and always will be, a frontier between what is known and what is not known. The act of turning any part of the unknown into the known is simply an invitation for an equal measure of the unknown to flow in and re-establish that frontier: to reassert the far inward, as yet unknown horizon of an individual life; to make us
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