Most people don’t grow up. Most people age.
They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards,
get married, have children, and call that maturity.
What that is, is aging.
// Maya Angelou
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MIND
MIND: Resilience
Understand, people will constantly attack you in life.
One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself –
your worth, your abilities, your potential.
They will often disguise this as their objective opinion,
but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.
The 50th Law // Robert Greene
MIND: Culmination
You are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends.
If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.
The 4-Hour Workweek // Timothy Ferriss
MIND: Wasteful
In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.”
We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.
Vagabonding // Rolf Potts
MIND: Initiate
Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right.’
Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command
and better tools will be found as you go along.
// Napoleon Hill
MIND: Twisted
I like subversive humor, freckles, women’s knees and long hair,
the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.
I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical.
I dread knowing precisely my own limitations.
// René Magritte
MIND: Spark
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers,
who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly,
all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Crime and Punishment // Fyodor Dostoyevsky
MIND: Momentum
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started
but hesitate to get in the way if you’re moving.
The 4-Hour Workweek // Timothy Ferriss
MIND: Fools
If you say that getting the money is the most important thing,
you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time.
You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living,
that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing, which is stupid.
// Alan Watts
MIND: Grounded
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting,
as it were, into the system of being,
in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
// Jean-Jacques Rousseau
