The only place where you eat sweets and still don’t get fat is books.
Me while reading ‘Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer’
Quotes
I pick my highlighter. I put a dot where I want to end my highlight. I start highlighting from the beginning and end at that dot. I put that dot, as if, by not letting my highlight go out-of-control, I save the dignity of that sentence.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars…”
Oscar Wilde
Do they remember the beach when they have chosen a metropolis…!?
I wonder… … …
Everything in excess…! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
See, this shit you went through, most people don’t know pain like that. They never will. And if they did, it would end them. But the people who dig in, the ones who keep surviving, those are the ones you can’t beat. Those are the ones no one can beat. Because once you’ve weathered a storm like yours… you become the storm. You hear me? You are the storm. And it’s the rest of the world that needs to run for cover.
Fernando Vera, Mr. Robot S04E07
“Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.”
Lao Tzu
Paths
But the best people you’ll ever meet,
Have wandered off their track,
Found themselves along the way,
And have no need to wander back,
So forget about life’s road map,
Follow your heart at any cost,
For you’ll never truly find yourself,
If you’re too scared to get lost…
Erin Hanson
Isn’t this why we should strive for financial freedom?
We take it for granted most of the time, but human life is fairly miraculous. It is also palpably short. You’re given this marvellous thing, and then poof, it’s taken away. You can see why people invent gods to explain it. But even to people who don’t believe in gods, life commands respect. There are times in most of our lives when the days go by in a blur, and almost everyone has a sense, when this happens, of wasting something precious. As Ben Franklin said, if you love life, don’t waste time, because time is what life is made of.
So no, there’s nothing particularly grand about making money. By compressing the dull but necessary task of making a living into the smallest possible time, you show respect for life, and there is something grand about that.
– Paul Graham, Essays
”There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.”
– Douglas Coupland
Courtesy – Joan, Tiny Spells #178