Quotes

Dreams →

Published August 13, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 13  ·  

Dreams come true. You just have to be willing to work for them.

~ Annie Mist Þórisdóttir

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Forge on ahead →

Published August 11, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 11  ·  ,

Why all this guesswork? You can see what needs to be done. If you can see the road, follow it. Cheerfully, without turning back. If not, hold up and get the best advice you can. If anything gets in the way, forge on ahead, making good use of what you have on hand, sticking to what seems right. (The best goal to achieve, and the one we fall short of when we fail.)

~ Marcus Aurelius

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Opposing ideas →

Published August 9, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 9  ·  ,

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Half twist →

Published August 7, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 7  ·  , ,

Continual awareness of all time and space, of the size and life span of the things around us. A grape seed in infinite space. A half twist of a corkscrew against eternity.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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Spiritless men →

Published August 6, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 6  ·  

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

~ Baldwin

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Thinking →

Published August 5, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 5  ·  

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

~ George S. Patton

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Who has authority? →

Published August 3, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 3  ·  ,

Suppose he had passed his judgement upon a hypothetical proposition, and declared, ‘I judge the proposition, “if it be day, there is light,” to be false,’ what would have happened to the proposition? Who is being judged here? Who has been condemned? The proposition, or he who is utterly mistaken about it? So who on Earth is this man who has authority to pass such judgement on you?

~ Epictetus

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Enthralled →

Published August 1, 2021  ·  All posts on Aug 1  ·  ,

When one is enthralled with the beauty on the surface of the ocean, the immensity of its depths can never be discerned.

~ Wu Hsin

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Actions and perceptions →

Published July 30, 2021  ·  All posts on Jul 30  ·  , ,

Operatics, combat and confusion. Sloth and servility. Every day they blot out those sacred principles of yours—which you day-dream thoughtlessly about, or just let slide. Your actions and perceptions need to aim: at accomplishing practical ends; at the exercise of thought; at maintaining a confidence founded on understanding. An unobtrusive confidence—hidden in plain sight.

When will you let yourself enjoy straightforwardness? Seriousness? Or understanding individual things—their nature and substance, their place in the world, their life span, their composition, who can possess them, whose they are to give and to receive?

~ Marcus Aurelius

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The future →

Published July 28, 2021  ·  All posts on Jul 28  ·  ,

The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.

~ William Gibson

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