Sublime

Play to your strengths, not to your limitations.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.

I must change his trivial misery back into the noble misery it once was.

A healthy mind combines an appropriate suspicion of certain people with a fundamental trust in humanity. It can take an intelligent risk with a stranger. It doesn’t extrapolate from life’s worst moments in order to destroy the possibility of connection.

we want to stay laser-focused on what expands or minimizes our strength. With our primitive wiring and so much tempting drama competing for our attention, it’s our responsibility to keep our awareness of freedom, aliveness, love, and peace out in front.

Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the lower. Nothing must interfere with the development of the hero inside of you.

And thus, the Harvard Study of Adult Development was born. The original cohort of 268 men included people from many walks of life, including some who went on to become well-known, such as John F. Kennedy and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. Still, over the decades it was deemed too demographically insular—all Harvard men!—to give generalizable