Quotes
“Problems don’t impede progress. Problems are the conduit of progress. No problems, no progress. That is why I reject utopia, because there are no problems there.” Kevin Kelly
The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life.
Sam Harris
A beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. The last line is 🔥
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the... See more
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
- Mary Oliver
There are at least a billion people on earth at this moment who would consider their prayers answered if they could trade places with you.
- Sam Harris - Mind & Emotion
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran
You will be miserable to the degree that you are hung up on the notion that things should—must—go a certain way. If you have no fixed view, you remain elastic.
Alan Watts - The Self
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
obsessing over quality often demands that you slow down, as the focus required to get better is simply not compatible with busyness.