“I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else–it’s in myself…I do not fear what may await me, though I’m equally confident that nothing awaits.”
Jon Krakauer
“Even if what you’re working on doesn’t go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you’re doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.”
Cormac McCarthy
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.—Abraham Maslow
Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.—Virgil Garnett Thomson
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Theodor Adorno
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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