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.
- It’s none of my business.
- Fraud is the market of a bubble.
- Each of us are a work made by our own hand.
- Attempts may fail, but those never attempted fail with certainty.
- The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fears chance.—Publilius Syrus
- Bees don’t waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit.
- Be around people focused on the future, not the past.
- Untracked is unremembered.
- Beginners ask what. Intermediates ask how. Experts ask who. Masters ask why.
- Those that know their history are doomed to think it is repeating.
- Manage risks, not returns.
- Shadowbanning is technological gas lighting.
- Beginner problems need more. Advanced problems need less.
- if everything goes wrong, it’s the lawyer’s fault. If everything goes right, justice prevailed.
- Learn. Do. Teach.
- Don’t spend time. Invest it.
- Spend time on what you excel at, enjoy and has the highest rate if return.
- Perseverance without passion isn’t grit, it’s grind.
- Call on God, but row away from the rocks.— Hunter S. Thompson
- I spell my God with two o’s and devil with no d.—Cyrus Bartol
- A lot of things are folklore.
- Some people cannot take life easy.
- Imagination is sufficient for some. Others must try to open the locked door.
- In the dying organism, the healthy cell is still doomed.
- The liar we listen to most is ourselves.
- Paradise is for those that make it.
- Live without disguise where they don’t advertise.
- Can function arise from dysfunction?
- Easy to change your mind. Hard to change your character.
- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.—Emerson
- For people, perception trumps facts.
- To make a thief, make an owner. To make a criminal, pass laws.
- Distance and interval are sometimes necessary to see the beauty of a thing.
- Useless work darkens the heart.
- At some point, your group tendency or character will claim you.
- Violence’s most devoted ally is the diverted eye.
- Swearing is impossible where everything is permitted.
- The satirist praises through rage.
- Learn slowly, but learn.
- No suffering, no joy.
- There is no way to act rightly in our modern world.
- Everything may have been tried, but I have not tried everything.
- Sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
- Beware looking for goals. Look for a way of life.
- Shade often gives better profiles.
- Real leadership is recognized, not imposed.
- Sign above the desk of Ursula Le Guin: 1) Is it true? 2) Is it necessary or at least useful? 3) Is it compassionate or at least unharmful?
- Impatience is an argument with reality.
- You tend to find what you look for. The difference between Mr. Rogers and a conspiracy theorist is one is looking for the helpers while the other is looking for someone to blame.
- The best environments are characterized by intelligence, love and creative action.
- The gossip everyone knows ain’t gossip.
- The government is not particularly good at finding the winners of tomorrow, but the losers of yesterday are very good at finding the government.—Moritz Schularick
- Growth mindsets are rare between the sheets.
- Desire is fueled by beauty and art, and passion takes many forms, both good and bad.
- People hate being sold to. Buy they love to buy. —Marty Neumeier
- We live on the border between now and later.
- Everything is compromised until proven otherwise.
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