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 worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.—R.C. Sproul
- I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don’t believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn’t want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two way street.—Malcolm X
- Deliberate practice requires effort and is not inherently enjoyable. Individuals are motivated to practice because practice improves performance.—K. Anders Ericsson
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.—George Santayana
- No happy relationship is possible with someone who struggles with accountability. If they won’t accept ownership of their mistakes, take responsibility for their actions & make changes when they’re wrong, they have made your integrity the price of a relationship with them.
- Being teachable solves many problems.
- Because time will eventually take everything from you, the question of what to sacrifice is only the art of timing.
- Beware of efficient markets, for price discovery may not be a nice discovery.
- Entire beautiful lives can be had in the pockets of inefficiency!
- Two waterfalls do not hear each other.
- Objectifying people undermines relationships with them.
- Empathetic understanding, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard.
- You will not survive here. You are not a wolf. And this is the land of wolves now.—Sicario
- Walk away from situations you don’t like.
- A light heart makes for navigable waters.
- The celebration of leisure is the preservation of man’s dignity.
- What is truth to one may be disaster to another.
- Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
- Don’t look for goals. Look for a way of life.
- Eloquence is a byproduct of solitude.
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