reminders

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried. But actually, you’ve been planted.

The Failure Paradox: You have to fail more to succeed more. Our greatest moments of growth often stem directly from our greatest failures. Don’t fear failure, just learn to fail smart and fast.

Most of the time the universe speaks to us very quietly: In pockets of silence; In coincidences; In nature; In forgotten memories; In the shape of clouds; In moments of solitude; In small tugs at our hearts. — Yumi Sakugawa

“Productivity advice seems to always think in terms of the day, the week, the year, or five years, never the season, the sun, and the shadow.” — Matt Thomas

Curiosity always involves risk. You can't satisfy your curiosity without accepting some risk. Curiosity didn't just kill the cat.

When we over-index on documenting our lives, or infuse it with the aesthetic of cinema, scoring the climaxes, editing out the in-betweens that make up a life, we risk inverting its utility. Instead of being an existential hedge against dying, it becomes one against living. We end up believing things about our former selves that weren’t quite true, or doing it for the gram, or missing a hike before it’s even over. In our search for meaning we obscure it.

"The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place."

— Alan Watts

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you are in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

— Deepak Chopra

Obsession is the opposite of discipline. The truly obsessed don't understand the word.  They don't force themselves to start.  They force themselves to stop.

the closer you get to excellence in your life, the more friends you'll lose. people love you when you're average because it makes them comfortable. but when you pursue greatness it makes people uncomfortable. be prepared to lose some people on your journey.

\- tony a. gaskins jr.

A completely different version of you exists in the minds of everyone you meet.