“Men are inclined to laziness. Some will feel that he might have said with greater justice: they are all timorous. They hide behind customs and opinions. At bottom, every human being knows very well that he is in this world just once, as something unique, and that no accident, however strange, will throw together a…
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw “Those were steps for me, and I have climbed up over them: to that end I had to pass over them. Yet they thought that I wanted to retire on them.” —…
“Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness—they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.” — Friedrich Nietzsche I think about being idle, but rarely find myself able to contain my restlessness. If busy is a weakness then I confess to being weak. For me, being…
“Countless things that humanity acquired in earlier stages, but so feebly and embryonically that nobody could perceive this acquisition, suddenly emerge into the light much later… All of us harbor concealed gardens and plantings; and, to use another metaphor, we are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how…
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Is courage the leap into the unknown or the perseverance and grit to see it through? I think Muhammad Ali would add…
“There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Belief is the easy route. We suspend our own development and believe the stories other people tell us. Beliefs about other people seemingly different from us. Beliefs in political “leaders” who…
“Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives…
Mellow is the man who knows what he’s been missingMany, many men can’t see the open road— Led Zeppelin, Over the Hills and Far Away Huddled in a group at an Irish pub, four men scheming for the future: one free of obligations and ready to roam, one surfing the peak of his career and…
“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Friedrich Nietzsche When is it easiest to hear your own music? When it’s quiet, of course. When you pull yourself away from the madness of the world, find the stillness and listen. When it is easiest…
“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.” – William James “All weakness is a weakness of will.” – Friedrich Nietzsche There’s no getting around it, I’ve been getting weaker – lacking the willpower to get on the erg or pick up the weights. This correlates exactly with…