“We cannot shame ourselves into change. We can only love ourselves into evolution.”
— M. Eayre
#Quote #mjbQuote #Kindness #Grace
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— James Clear
https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/december-15-2022
#Resilience #Life #mjbQuote #Quote #JamesClear
What would the dark say if she could?
What I wouldn’t give
If for just one night
I could shine so you’d see me
But all I’ve ever been
Is the absence of the light
I don’t shine
No one sees me.
So won’t you?
— Sara Bareilles
#mjbMusic #Earworm
https://youtu.be/6Euudy4UiKc
“The unread story is not a story;
it is little black marks on wood pulp.
The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World
https://thoughtkick.com/post/703227121211981824
#Reading, #mjbReading, #Quote, #mjbQuote, #Books, #mjbBooks, #StoryTelling
Barely 4 questions and close to two hours of insight and story.
Todd McFarlane’s (@Todd_McFarlane) still got it :)
https://youtu.be/agTXV5ND6mw
#Comics, #SpiderMan, #Spawn, #Venom, #StoryTelling, #ToddFather
We are not resting to be productive.
We are resting simply because it is our divine right to do so.
— Tricia Hersey (via A Working Library)
#mjbQuote, #Quote, #Rest, #Life
Scared is what you’re feeling.
Brave is what you’re doing.
A good book gets better at the second reading.
A great book at the third.
Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://twitter.com/TalebWisdom/status/1592725465986465798
#Quote #mjbQuote #Reading #Books
“Be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be humble, but not timid. Be proud, but not arrogant.”
— Unknown.
Don’t suffer imagined troubles.
Seneca: “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
11 Daily Stoic Lessons - Billy Oppenheimer