Inspirational Quotes book (reviewed)

Cultivate →

Published November 28, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 28  ·  ,

Give fools their gold and knaves their power, let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall, who sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree, is more than all.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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Character →

Published November 23, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 23  ·  ,

Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.

~ Mark Manson

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Creativity →

Published November 18, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 18  ·  , ,

The highest form of creativity is found by improvising within a set of restrictions.

~ Christopher Nolan

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Understanding →

Published November 17, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 17  ·  ,

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.

~ Baruch Spinoza

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It’s the cake →

Published November 16, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 16  ·  , ,

A party without a cake is really just a meeting.

~ Julia Child

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Watch, quietly →

Published November 15, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 15  ·  ,

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

~ T.H. White

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I arrange my thoughts →

Published November 14, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 14  ·  , ,

[A]s I write I think about all sorts of things. I don’t necessarily write down what I’m thinking; It’s just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths. No matter how much I write, though, I never reach a conclusion. And no matter how much I rewrite, I never reach the destination. Even after decades of writing, the same still holds true.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Success →

Published November 13, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 13  ·  

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

~ Warren Buffett

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Happiness →

Published November 12, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 12  ·  

You are genuinely happy if you don’t know why.

~ Joseph Mayer

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Wrong →

Published November 11, 2023  ·  All posts on Nov 11  ·  ,

Until we know we are wrong, being wrong feels exactly like being right.

~ David McRaney

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