Focusing on a full bank account can be important, but we shouldn’t do do at the expanse of a full life.
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‘Redirect’ by Timothy D Wilson
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
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Jack Kerouac: On the Road.
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All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience is for it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand
Although the physicality of death destroys man, the idea of death saves him.
Art consists in limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target
no one else can see.
The mastery asymptote is a source of frustration. Why reach for something you can never fully attain? But it’s also a source of allure. Why not reach for it? The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization. In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.