Lingual Thinking

“You are afraid to surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

Natural scenes engage some of our attention without requiring much conscious effort. they provide just enough diversion to occupy the conscious mind, leaving the subconscious free to do its own thing.

Ask yourself, what are you seeing everywhere? This is perhaps the clearest reflection of your identity” — Benjamin Hardy

Learn to laugh at the mental warfare you play with yourself. Before a long run, everything hurts. Before a big meeting, nothing is ready. Before a big launch, it's not the right time. This is the only fight that matters. Once you see it for what it is, you realize it's just a game. Then, you can finally start playing.

If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar

To be slow is not merely to decrease the pace of life. It’s about taking the time to reconsider our actions and think more deeply and responsibly about how we live.



We want to nourish ourselves on what Thoreau called “the tonic of wildness” and live evermore in the moment so that we can inhabit an existence that is “more elastic, more starry, more immortal.” Or in the words of Rachel Carson, the mother of the green movement: “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’”