“To be happy at home, said Johnson, is the end of all human endeavour. As long as we are thinking only of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him.”
"The deepest form of slavery is the hunger for being understood." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
— Denis Diderot
i am always in search of profound and timeless principles to live by, there is no other way.
Never ever think about anything else when you should be thinking about incentives. I thought I understood this was everything but I realized it was even more important than I originally thought. - Charlie Munger
How all life works, from single cells to multicellular.
"One of the hardest but most important practices: Realize that you are not the stuff inside your head. You are the awareness that decides what to do with the stuff inside your head. The ability to choose which thoughts to pursue and which to leave behind is key to everything."
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
you are always working against your ego, once you abandon it life unfolds.
will i ever be anything in your eyes, a hero or a devil?
kiwi.
focus is a hard thing, number one to do it, number two for all the sacrifice and hate you'll receive for continually using it.
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves in spring. I love the blue sky. I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I've long ceased perhaps to have faith in them. Yet from habit one's heart prizes them.”
“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
Sometimes I feel like a bad person. Where it seems demons are chasing after you. You can't escape. Eventually getting ahold of you, feeling possessed by evil thoughts. Then you realize how bad you really are because you are trying to get back to good.
You keep nothing in the end, just reflections.
"It's a beautiful good life
You know the world is a jungle
But you don't have to crumble
'Cause it's a beautiful good life."
"A flower that is in bloom only lasts a short while because the winds that made it bloom are also what make it fall apart."
i am the forever fool, lost in books touching so little grass.
"People's accusations are not a reflection of you- they're a confession from them. Their rage is their fear. Their criticism is their secret shame. Their envy is their lack. Stop defending yourself from their projections. Stop accepting their judgments as your identity. Ignore them. Live your life as you see best."
we thought the future would be chrome and speed,
but it turns out the next era is clay.
linen.
ink.
instruments.
soil.
it's the curve of real handwriting. the creak of a leather book. the sound of someone working.
humanity is circling back to itself.
and it feels like medicine.
- Victoria Erickson
“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”
Not having all the answers, a little mystery in life is a good thing.
on what terms and what price.
"The father plants trees he will never climb and the son climbs trees he did not plant, and somewhere in this sacred exchange lies the mystery of time itself - how a man becomes eternal not by living forever but by teaching another man to die well, and when the son finally understands that his father's silence was not absence but presence compressed into granite, that his father's hands were not empty but full of invisible seeds, then he becomes the father, then he plants the trees, then he learns the terrible beautiful weight of loving someone into tomorrow." - lichthauch
how disgusting it is 'performing' for other people's vanity.
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
“What changes you isn’t the wave, it’s the erosion”
"You cannot persuade anyone by paint-balling them with your opinion. You must paint a picture of your point using the colors of the listener's mind."
some people just love the bitching rather than the doing.
the shortcut is discipline and honesty.
you can pass down money, you will have a much harder time passing down discipline and habits, and the money follows the latter.
"In his 1936 article "Isaiah's Job",[4] which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Nock expressed his complete disillusionment with the idea of reforming the current system. Believing that it would be impossible to convince any large portion of the general population of the correct course and opposing any suggestion of a violent revolution, Nock instead argued that they should focus on nurturing what he called "the Remnant". The Remnant, according to Nock, consisted of a small minority who understood the nature of the state and society, and who would become influential only after the current dangerous course had become thoroughly and obviously untenable, a situation which might not occur until far into the future."
Once a cuck, always a cuck.
you really know how to make a man erect! LFG.
I think a lot of people don't comment on twitter cause they don't want to see garbage comments.
It was only inevitable that once you had bearer money you get bearer speech.
Preston, you add to your MSTR position?
Did you ever try TweetDeck? So you can really filter out twitter?