Thought provoking
“The most selfish act of all is kindness, because its reward is so much greater than the investment.” — Tom Peters
“There are two kinds of people in the world… and who is not both of them?” — James Richardson
“Confidence is belief in yourself. Certainty is belief in your beliefs. Confidence is a bridge. Certainty is a barricade.”
-Kevin Ashton
This is a good maxim to check your arrogance.
the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
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