— Shelby Foote (around minute 15 of video below)
Category: Philosophy
Beginnings are a beautiful thing — beautiful and terrifying, marked by the wonder of the possible and the weight of the possible
— Maria Popova
One of the most overlooked opportunities in life is how you are positioned when circumstances hit…
— Farnam Street ” Good positions create options, while bad positions reduce them. You don’t have to be an expert decision-maker to get better results, you only need to put yourself in a good position. Anyone looks like a genius when all the options are good. If you’re forced to do something because you need
Justice at all costs is not justice
― Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Justice. If only we knew what it was
― Socrates
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of it no less than the excitement and the gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace
— Frederick Buechner ‘As Philip Yancey wrote, Buechner “tries to reawaken the child in people: the one who naïvely trusts, who will at least go and look for the magic place, who is not ashamed of not knowing the answers because he is not expected to know the answers.”’ ”One of Buechner’s often cited observations