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.
- Money loves speed. Poverty loves waiting.
- Resist the urge to maximize value.
- Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.—Rumi
- A man with a taste for blood, money or women is not to be trusted.
- Science is only path to the future.
- Everything changes. What is true today may not be true tomorrow. So, take no one’s word without reservation.
- Strength leads to responsibiliy not happiness.
- Facing facts is preferable to facing defeat.
- Imposing on another point of view is a kind of violence.
- The dice cannot read their own spots.
- First admit, then live with your difference. Embrace it, if you can.
- We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t the fish.—Marshall McLuhan
- Happiness is rarely a product of understanding.
- Disobedience isn’t a problem if obedience isn’t the goal.
- Prioritize time, friends, mind and body over money.
- There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.—Sun-Tzu
- …the truth is out there. But so are lies.—Dana Scully, The X-Files
- Don’t do other people’s thinking for them.
- Society has three elements: experts, elites, and masses. Experts have specialized knowledge. Elites lead. The masses are everyone else.
- There is a lot of alpha in dirty jobs.
- Always make your boss look good.
- Never power struggle, especially not if you don’t have power.
- What’s the most expensive thing you’ve broken?
- Price’s Law, the square root of the workforce does 50% of the work.
- Licensing protects people with licences, not the people using their services.
- You love what you give to—and in proportion as you give.
- Love is the death of duty.
- KTF, kill them first.
- Divide your activity into neck-down and neck-up.
- Outside of loving relationships, power is always supported by violence or the threat of violence.
- The defining feature of love is struggle.
- Rudeness is a sign of inner struggle.
- Quietly do the next and most necessary thing.
- Judgment in application is superior to following rules.
- Our awareness of life, of its great variety and beauty and possibility, emerges out of uncertainty.
- Being nice is not the same as being good.
- No feeling is final.
- Criticism is a whetstone of character.
- Possession or benefits require staying in the dream. Waking up to Truth requires forsaking everything you have or could have.
- Be brave enough to break your own heart.—Cheryl Strayed
- Respect your anger enough to shape and direct it.
- Art lives in constraints and dies from freedom.
- Competence is being good at earning. Character is being good for others when there is nothing to gain.
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