Quotes

Competition →

Published April 20, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 20  ·  

I would like to remove all competitions in outdoor sports. The competition is not the important thing. The important thing is to learn to behave with wild nature.

~ Reinhold Messner

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Pleasure →

Published April 19, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 19  ·  

Moderation is the pleasure of the wise.

~ Voltaire

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Riches and power →

Published April 18, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 18  ·  ,

To have what we want is riches; But to be able to do without it is power.

~ George MacDonald

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Dreary and repellant →

Published April 17, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 17  ·  

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Self-delusion →

Published April 16, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 16  ·  ,

Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

~ C. M. von Weber

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A sudden crash →

Published April 15, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 15  ·  ,

All human things hang on a slender thread: The strongest fall with a sudden crash.

~ Ovid

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Small asks →

Published April 14, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 14  ·  

The world expects that its requests will be accepted. That assignments, lunch dates, new projects, and even favors will get a yes. […] It’s just a small ask, the person thinks. Responding or reacting to incoming asks becomes the narration of your days, instead of the generous work of making your own contribution.

~ Seth Godin

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Playfulness →

Published April 13, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 13  ·  ,

To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with one another, we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcomes of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility.

~ James Carse

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Interior stability →

Published April 12, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 12  ·  

To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

~ Henri Nouwen

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Painting a masterpiece →

Published April 11, 2022  ·  All posts on Apr 11  ·  ,

You can’t really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you’re lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it’s meaningful.

~ Susan Kare

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