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.
- The street is a tough mother, but she is honest.—Jack Micheline
- Your life reflects who you are. You cannot hide. You cannot lie. Your life always tells on you to the people who know how to ask. Do you know what it is saying?
- Irony is the song of the prisoner who loves their golden handcuffs.
- The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.—Aristotle
- Despair must be private and brief.
- Always take the initiative.
- Learn to live with your mistakes.
- Thwart institutional cowardice.
- Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
- Carry bolt cutters, a pry bar, and other implements of entry.
- Don’t fear rejection.
- If you want to swim in the river, better know how to live with the crocodiles.
- Learn to be comfortable and make decisions in situations with limited information.
- You have to bring your own light to light up the darkness.
- Life is choice. You can do anything, but you cannot do everything.
- There are worse things than being alone.—Charles Bukowski
- A person without self reflection never changes, they just get older.
- The truth will not be heard where it is punished.
- Something is worth only what someone will pay for it.
- Explanation is akin to permission, best after the fact.
- Small talk is an audition for authentic connection.
- A friend to all is a friend to none.—Aristotle
- If you make something and it does not draw attention to itself, it is your fault. Do not blame your audience.
- Education is ultimately an individual project.
- When the sea is calm, every asshole is a sailor.
- Don’t operate from the point of view of logic.
- Philosophy is a slow acting remedy.
- The training log comes before (and after) the race.
- Don’t promise, just shut up and do it.
- Support people taking the big swing.
- Anger is often an aspect of sadness.
- Dreaming is nursed in darkness.
- Criticizing is not coaching. Coaching is correcting. Criticizing is complaining.
- Lives are determined by how we alleviate our boredom.
- Money is coined liberty.
- To be alive, you must be able to destroy yourself.
- The price of loving someone very much is never loving anyone again.—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t figured out how to ask.
- Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.—Mark Twain
- Either change or excuses.
- Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.―Ovid
- Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.―Paulo Coelho
- Even two companions don’t walk the same road.
- Half the harm that is done in this world / Is due to people who want to feel important. / They don’t mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them / Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle / To think well of themselves.—T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (1948)
- Everywhere, everyone means nowhere, no one.
- Tomorrow is a wonder waiting.
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