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.
- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.—Bertrand Russell
- The things you run from are inside you.—Seneca
- It is not shocking that everyone has their price, just how low it is.
- It is always the people going nowhere with something to say.
- If you criticize a system and people get upset, it is because they accept and identify with that system.
- People muddy the water to appear deep.
- The fear of looking stupid, by not admitting you are wrong, prevents learning and makes you actually stupid.
- Our loves and hates define us.
- Last year’s fun is today’s crime.
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.—Anaïs Nin.
- Don’t look backwards; you are not going that way.
- Behind mountains are more mountains.
- Time is too valuable to waste on people that aren’t like-minded.
- We are not all weak in the same spots.
- The intellect is a raft floating on a river of emotion with rapids of grief and joy.
- The main risk of the smart is losing one’s will in a labyrinth of hypotheses.
- Nobody wants to become some thing. They want to be it already.
- Time and distance strip out the superfluous and leave only what is real.
- In scarcity, tools are valued. In abundance, it’s taste.
- Direction is more important than speed.
- Take more opportunities to be silent.
- Focus on the long-term with both your effort and relationships.
- The distance between dreams and reality is bridged by discipline.
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