Quotes

The power to break your back →

Published April 25, 2019  ·  All posts on Apr 25  ·  ,

If you can lighten your burden you must do so. There is no straw which lacks the power to break your back.

~ unknown

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All comes out even at the end →

Published April 20, 2019  ·  All posts on Apr 20  ·  ,

Weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last moment, I get a hundred pike thrusts, I return two hundred and I laugh. I see near my door Geneva on fire with quarrels over nothing, and I laugh again; And, thank god, I can look upon the world as a farce even when it becomes as tragic as it sometimes does. All comes out even at the end of the day, and all comes out still more even when all the days are over.

~ Voltaire

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Thoughtful, committed citizens →

Published April 15, 2019  ·  All posts on Apr 15  ·  

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead

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Let the news come →

Published April 10, 2019  ·  All posts on Apr 10  ·  

And what better use could you make of that time? A day that could be your last — you want to spend it in worry? In what other area could you make some progress while others might be sitting on the edges of their seat, passively awaiting some fate? Let the news come when it does. Be too busy working to care.

~ Ryan Holiday

Elsewhere, this is 4a135. — slipbox

Not in the mood →

Published April 5, 2019  ·  All posts on Apr 5

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

~ E. B. White

Elsewhere, this is 4a300. — slipbox

Raw material →

Published March 31, 2019  ·  All posts on Mar 31  ·  

Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power – Just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-ops it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Elsewhere, this is 4a292. — slipbox

The muse →

Published March 26, 2019  ·  All posts on Mar 26  ·  

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

~ Isabel Allende

Elsewhere, this is 4a42. — slipbox

True and steadfast judgment →

Published March 21, 2019  ·  All posts on Mar 21  ·  ,

This can be swiftly taught in very few words: Virtue is the only good; There is no certain good without virtue; And virtue resides in our nobler part, which is the rational one. And what can this virtue be? True and steadfast judgment.

~ Seneca

Elsewhere, this is 4a199. — slipbox

Get to work →

Published March 16, 2019  ·  All posts on Mar 16

Inspiration is for amateurs—the rest of us just show up and get to work.

~ Chuck Close

Elsewhere, this is 4a108. — slipbox

Never think you’ve got it all →

Published March 11, 2019  ·  All posts on Mar 11  ·  ,

Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That’s the secret to life, really – never stop learning. It’s the secret to career. I’m still working because I learn something new all the time. It’s the secret to relationships. Never think you’ve got it all.

~ Clint Eastwood

Elsewhere, this is 4a583. — slipbox