To escape criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
— Oscar Wilde
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
– Charles Darwin
You are always 3 bad months away from being homeless, but never 3 good months away from being a millionaire.
Burn your feet on coals you lay down yourself before others lay down coals for you.
I’m basically drunk Buddha. 🍻
O Me! O Life!
BY WALT WHITMAN
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish,
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Ichi-go ichi-e
A Japanese four-character idiom that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
Keep passing the open window.