I’m not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I’m saying it helps.
~ Walter Mosley
Elsewhere, this is 4a1528. — slipbox
Be a reader →
The real fear →
These are serious fears. But they’re not the real fear. Not the Master Fear, the Mother of all Fears that’s so close to us that even when we verbalize it we don’t believe it. Fear That We Will Succeed. That we can access the powers we secretly know we possess. That we can become the person we sense in our hearts we truly are.
~ Steven Pressfield
Elsewhere, this is 4a1527. — slipbox
Premeditation →
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; He who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Elsewhere, this is 4a1526. — slipbox
Boring →
Somebody’s boring me—I think it’s me.
~ Dylan Thomas
Elsewhere, this is 4a1525. — slipbox
The creative mind →
The creative mind gets poisoned with the idea that your great work will be the result of getting serious. So many of my good ideas come from what looks like goofing off, wasting time. Art is play. There’s no way to tell what’s deep or shallow until you play with the idea.
~ Austin Kleon
Elsewhere, this is 4a1524. — slipbox
Who was listening →
[…] so the Muse whispered in Beethoven’s ear. Maybe she hummed a few bars into a million other ears. But no one else heard her. Only Beethoven got it.
~ Steven Pressfield
Elsewhere, this is 4a1522. — slipbox
Sleep →
It’s a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
~ John Steinbeck
Elsewhere, this is 4a1521. — slipbox
A bore →
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
~ Bert Taylor
Elsewhere, this is 4a1520. — slipbox
Acceptance →
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
~ Michael J. Fox
Elsewhere, this is 4a1519. — slipbox
Freedom →
I think freedom, ideally, is being able to choose your responsibilities. Not not having any responsibilities, but being able to choose which things you want to be responsible for.
~ Toni Morrison
Elsewhere, this is 4a1518. — slipbox