“You’ve wandered all over, and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or…
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and…
Mr. Rogers’ journal entry, April 1979 at age 50: “Am I kidding myself that I’m able to write a script again? Am I really just whistling…
“It’s not really what you do, it’s more the intensity by which you do it. By the conviction of your reality that you believe in,…
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about…
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the…
“Nothing cheers me up like having understood something difficult to understand. I should try it more often.” -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“The difference between motion and action: Motion: talk to a personal trainer, research your book idea, explore different types of meditation. Action: do 10 squats,…
“We must learn to stay with the pain of life, without answers, without conclusions, and some days without meaning. That is the path, the perilous…
“Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to share it with.” -Mark Twain
“When I want to read something I can tune everything else out… I think people who multi-task pay a huge price. They think they are…
“The trick to viewing feedback as a gift is to be more worried about having blind spots than hearing about them.” -James Clear