Wisdom building
To know someone’s pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.
Nnedi Okorafor
Letting go of our images of who we are is a way of letting go of the known, which is our prison.
Pema Chödrön
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Civilization is a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness. -Werner Herzog
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
Annie Dillard
In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the future.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
T.S. Eliot
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we’ll find that more areas of our lives are workable.
PEMA CHÖDRÖN