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- still one of my favorite lines of all time: and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? - charles bukowski
"It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you down. It's the pebble in your shoe."
(Muhammad Ali)
If you understand that the world is full of irrational and irrelevant reactions to mental events, then even if you react to them, you can recognise your reaction and control it better.
(Orgyen Chowang)
- “It's so simple, yet makes such a difference. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'”
from Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
(One of my favorite pieces of parenting advice: You have to give yourself what you needed when you were a kid, and give your kids what they need now.)
from The Way You Wanted to Feel by Austin Kleon
- Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:
"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
M... See more - Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond
You can learn something from anyone, no matter who they are or what their station in life is.
“Love is more important than opinion.
If people love each other, the most varied opinions can be reconciled.
That’s why one of the most important tasks for humanity today and in the future is that we must learn to live together and understand each other. “Rudolf Steiner
Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. — C. S. Lewis, “On Stories” https://t.co/wGA8Ixcmye