Sometimes we speak in two different languages, - that certainly doesn’t mean the other person is crazy!
We just have to make sure we are understanding each other.
Mostly on Purpose
Commonplace Book
If your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness to learn something from everybody, your learning opportunities will be unlimited.
It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
And it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back, so shake him off.
- “Shake It Out” by Florence + The Machine
Do we have the courage to face the realities of our time? And allow ourselves to feel deeply enough that it transforms us and our future?
I learned the hard way that it’s much better to judge people by their own standards rather than by mine.
- Tynan
All you can really do in life is change yourself, and that’s hard enough.
- Simon Amstell
Overwork doesn’t burn people out per se, but it’s doing that without knowing the things that replenish you.
Several hours and a cheeseburger later, I am now clutching my aching legs, reaching for Ibuprofen, and complaining - but also feeling deliciously alive.
- Velouria
