“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach

Manipulation = persuasion where the intention is hidden, and the intention NEEDS to be hidden for the persuasion to “work”

-Simone Grace Seol

God, grant me the serenity to
Accept the things I cannot change
Courage to change the things I can
And wisdom to know the difference

If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr

“Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself…. His task was to discover his own destiny — not an arbitrary one — and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness

You see, I want a lot.
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent.

So many are alive who don't seem to care.
Casual, easy, they move in the world
as though untouched.

But you take pleasure in the faces
of those who know they thirst.
You cherish those
who grip you for survival.

You are not dead yet, it's not too

“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”

— Richard Rohr

“People listen better if they feel that you have understood them. They tend to think that those who understand them are intelligent and sympathetic people whose own opinions may be worth listening to. So if you want the other side to appreciate your interests, begin by demonstrating that you appreciate theirs.”

― Roger Fisher, Getting to Yes: Negot

Embed future in today. Action bias in here and now. And weave time to unleash compounding. Small steady steps in right direction

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

-Margaret Mead