Several posts separated these two in my Tumblr stream— At Book Mania [http://bookmania.me/post/105065833317/from-a-field-guide-to-getting-lost-by-rebecca] At On Being [http://blog.onbeing.org/post/105051767051/sometimes-beauty-comes-from-unexpected-places-an?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS] > I never wanted to be a vagabond; An aimless wanderer…
Years ago, I heard someone pass on this thought of Lee Iacocca— > Every day in America, 242 million people wake up, and if everyone would say when he gets up that he’s going to do some classy, quality thing today that he didn’t do yesterday, we’d…
Nietzsche via [Explore](http://explore.noodle.com/post/100077062433/a-century-and-a-half-before-our-modern-fetishism?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS)> “The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived — nor could it,…
I've meant to record these two for a while— > Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for…
Stumbling across this precept from Aristotle called to mind a more recent restatement. > 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' Aristotle — The School of Life (@TheSchoolOfLife) September 16, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife/status/511786781420027904] > "How we…
First William James— > To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No Exceptions. William James — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) September 24, 2013 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/status/382461185821384704] Then Henry— > Live all you can: it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t matter what you…
Some juxtapositions are simply too good to pass on. First, from Explore [http://explore.noodle.com/post/97730787288/how-we-die-surgeon-and-bioethicist-sherwin] — Them, moments later, from Clive James via Austin Kleon at Tumblr [http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/97692980281]—…
Discovery of this saying by John Muir at On Being's Tumblr site [http://blog.onbeing.org/post/95693778091/when-we-try-to-pick-out-anything-by-itself-we?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS] — > When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in…