Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file.
- You do not need to be related to relate.
- Stop seeing life as a canvas to fill and see it as marble to shape.
- The market owes you nothing.
- Incorporate some calculated risks into your plan.
- You never know when you’re going to run out of steam.
- I don’t interest myself in the why. I think more often in terms of the when, sometimes where, and always how much.
- Don’t repeat yourself.
- Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.—James Baldwin
- Markets of abundance are both bad for the median consumer, and good for intelligent ones.
- Cars destroy community.
- The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life.—Helen Keller
- Forgiveness and compassion are always linked.
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.—Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Look for the 25 to 1 risk profile.
- You only find out who’s swimming naked when the tide goes out.—Warren Buffett
- Smart people hate small talk.
- Act like you like someone and you will.
- How do you spend most of your time?
- Perhaps the dead are the only reliable narrators because their stories are all they have left.
- It takes years, if ever, to understand the relative authenticities of our relationships.
- Stand in the presence of questions and do not look for answers.
- Play the man, not the puck.
- There’s imprisonment in trying to recreate the past.
- Love is the process of refining the truths we can tell each other.
- To know is to share a community of interpretation.
- In the game of privacy, the only way to win is not to login.
- Build infrastructure.
- Paths are made by walking.
- Tactics are exchanging one problem for an easier one.
- People have done this before, but not us.—Ada Limón
- And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.—John Steinbeck, East of Eden
- How long can the corpus outlast the corpse?
- If you aim at nothing, you hit nothing.
- I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel.
- The First Law of Online Writing: always make sure that anything you want to endure is hosted on a platform that you control.
- No. I’m fully committed right now.
- Will this choice enlarge me or diminish me?
- The chances are minuscule. But minuscule is not zero.
- To be alive, he says, is to act in ways that reduce the gulf between your expectations and your sensory inputs.
- The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.—Alan Moore in V for Vendetta
- Enduring relationships anchor our identity or our sense of self.
- Anything studied and discussed long enough on the internet tends to lead to disillusionment.
- People focus on the vices more than the virtues, and lose trust.
- Theories followed far enough permit us to transcend our worldview.
- Do nothing without gaiety.
- Withhold judgment. Distrust your own knowledge, and avoid ideology.
- You ultimately become whoever would have saved you that time no one did.
- Choose what is simple without hesitation; sooner or later, what is complicated will always lead to problems.–Bernard Moitessier
- Obsession with detail is a hallmark of the most successful maintainers.
- Simplicity is a form of beauty.–Bernard Moitessier
- Do not crystalize your thinking prematurely.
- Rapid growth is unbalanced growth. Eventually, growth will be redistributed to an equilibrium.
- Be genuine. Be interested. Give the conversation air.
- …what we have loved, / Others will love, and we will teach them how.–Wordsworth
- People are different, with different strengths and weaknesses. It’s important to understand who you’re dealing with.
- One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.—Aldous Huxley
- Don’t overreact to recent bad news.
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