"The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
People sacrifice their long term aspirations for short term pleasures.
They become prisoners of their own impulses resulting in sad lives characterized by inconsistency and missed opportunities."
- Napoleon Bonaparte.
People sacrifice their long term aspirations for short term pleasures.
They become prisoners of their own impulses resulting in sad lives characterized by inconsistency and missed opportunities."
- Napoleon Bonaparte.
"I worry there is something broken
in our generation".
in our generation".
We must live our own experience,
we cannot inherit it.
we cannot inherit it.
βRemembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.β
- Marcel Proust.
- Marcel Proust.
βThe Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering."
So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.β
-Milan Kundera.
So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.β
-Milan Kundera.
"You'll always be brave in someone's mind and coward in another's, strong to one and fragile to another, good to one and terrible to another. You will be seen as annoying to one and comforting to another. Some will feel anxious around you and some will find peace in your company. Some will see you as "too much" while others will see you as a gift. The world will look at you from their subjective point of view. The world is never going to agree on a definition of who you are. So you might as well live the way that feels true to your heart."
- Aysha.
- Aysha.
What would you do if you were stuck in one place, and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
just thinking of how our meaning or purpose in life is merely to experience.
eating an orange segment, hoping for snow, being in love, returning over and over to one painting, stepping outside for the full moon, submersion in water, having a favorite color, knowing beauty, feeling alone, feeling connected, feeling longing...
it is enough.
eating an orange segment, hoping for snow, being in love, returning over and over to one painting, stepping outside for the full moon, submersion in water, having a favorite color, knowing beauty, feeling alone, feeling connected, feeling longing...
it is enough.
I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life and achieving a sense of peace within oneself.
Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks.
"There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever.
When people die, they cannot be replaced.
They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death."
Oliver Sacks.
When people die, they cannot be replaced.
They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death."
Oliver Sacks.