Yes, that’s right, I’m going to the meme well again. This time for Andrew Wheeler’s Omnivore’s Hundred (which I’ve seen a lot of places, but first saw at the other Andrew Wheeler’s blog.). I think the “expected” result, in so far as there is one, is that people would find there are lots and lots [...]
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the [...]
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering.
—Thomas Merton
Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to [...]
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
—Edgar Allen Poe
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
—John Locke, Of Reading
Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are [...]
When I was a student, in the days before I had covered my walls with art, I used to decorate with words. I would take those cheap 8.5 x 11 frames you could buy at the grocery store, and fill them with nicely formatted blocks of text–poems, quotes, things like that. I’ve always liked to [...]
I knew it all along, but it’s nice to have some science to back it up
Spending on Happiness — HBS Working Knowledge
Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the [...]
That’s a sample page from a book I’m really enjoying reading at the moment: The Explainers by Jules Feiffer. (You can see some other sample pages at The Comics Reporter, or even cooler check out the slideshow on Flickr.)
Here’s how the publisher describes the book:
In 1956, a relatively unknown cartoonist by the name of Jules [...]
Own only what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn
So I can’t claim not to have stuff… but I can certainly claim to understand that the things that matter are people and stories. It doesn’t hurt to remind myself from time to [...]
“We are here to witness; if we were not here the show would play to an empty house . . . .That is why I go for walks . . . to keep an eye on things.”
–Annie Dillard
While I am unsure about the teleological implications, I am sure I love the quote. I believe [...]
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