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2024-09-17

Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

~ Sara Blakely


2024-09-15

little by little
day by day
what is meant for you
will find its way

~ s.p


2024-09-15

Perfect is the enemy of shipped.

~ Simon Willison


2024-09-15

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

~ Rumi


2024-09-14

The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.

~ Dostoevsky


2024-09-14

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you king for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.

For it is not a man's father, mother or wife,
Whose judgment upon him must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in life
is the one staring back from the glass.

He's the fellow to please, nevermind all the rest,
For he's with you clear to the end
And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test,
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But the final reward will be heartache and tears,
If you've cheated the man in the glass.

~ The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow


2024-09-13

Intelligence without courage leads to anxiety because you will spend your time overthinking instead of acting, taking risks, improving your life.

~ Orange Book


2024-09-12

If you don't have awareness, you can't change something.

~ Leo Babauta


2024-09-12

Rejoice and delight in yourself, no matter how it’s going!

~ Leo Babauta


2024-09-12

We don’t usually realize we’re craving quiet. But in my experience, this is where the deepest experience of life lies, in the quietude.

~ Leo Babauta


2024-09-12

In stillness, the world is restored.

~ Lao Tzu


2024-09-12

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

~ Rumi


2024-09-12

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

~ Robert Greene


2024-09-12

As long as you know your intentions are pure, never stress yourself about anything or anyone. you have to trust that you will always end up being where you’re meant to be & that it’s never your loss respectfully.

~ y


2024-09-12

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.

~ Jim Rohn


2024-09-12

After getting what you manifested, ask for discipline to keep it and wisdom to multiply it.

~ Unknown


2024-09-12

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

~ Nassim N. Taleb


2024-09-10

Inaction is a slow death.

~ Joey Schweitzer


2024-09-10

...the second best time is now.

~ Unknown


2024-09-10

Crypto is like catnip for programmers. It is hard to keep us away from it, because it's challenging and fun to play with. And programmers respond very badly to the insinuation that they're not clever enough to do something.

~ maciej


2024-09-10

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

~ Bruce Lee


2024-09-09

If you’re not sure why you’re doing something, you can never do enough of it.

~ _David Allen, Getting Things Done


2024-09-09

The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.

~ Paulo Coelho


2024-09-09

Breathe.

If you feel overwhelmed, breathe. It will calm you and release the tensions.

If you are worried about something coming up, or caught up in something that already happened, breathe. It will bring you back to the present.

If you are moving too fast, breathe. It will remind you to slow down, and enjoy life more.

Breathe, and enjoy each moment of this life. They’re too fleeting and few to waste.

~ Leo Babauta


2024-09-07

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness.

~ Victor Frankl


2024-09-07

It is not in our control to have everything turn out exactly as we want, but it is in our control to control how we respond to what happens

~ Epictetus (Stoic philosopher)


2024-09-07

Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

~ William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction


2024-09-03

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


2024-09-03

A half truth is a whole lie.

~ Yiddish proverb


2024-08-31

We should be careful of each other
We should be kind
While there is still time

~ Philip Larkin, "The Mower"


2024-08-31

Every rise and ascent to a higher level represents the death of our lower personality at the level we leave behind. Then, we can gently return to that level and whisper to the ear of the actor playing that role with love, understanding, and affection, 'Yes, you are me, but I am not just you!' This way, we can end the dominion of that role in our lives. We both free it from an existence it actually hates and offer ourselves an opportunity for growth! The biggest obstacle in abandoning the role, that is, the lower personality, is not knowing the existence of a higher level - the fear that if the role goes away, we will fall into a void.

~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403090


2024-08-31

For an eye washed in silvers, everything looks gray.

~ Aditya Purwa


2024-08-27
  1. Do your duty, but do not concern yourself with the results.
  2. The fruits of your actions are not for your enjoyment.
  3. Even while working, give up the pride of doership.
  4. Do not be attached to inaction.

~ Bhagavad Gita 2.47


2024-08-26

The greatest obstacle to blogging is the temptation to futz with your website instead of writing. Don’t succumb!

~ https://www.benkuhn.net/writing/