— Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Relationships
The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love…
“Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied
To spend time with a child is to dwell under the terms of an uneasy truce between the possibility of the present and the inevitability of the future…
… Our deepest hope for the children we love is that they will enjoy the liberties of an open-ended destiny, that their desires will be given the free play they deserve, that the circumstances of their birth and upbringing will be felt as opportunities rather than encumbrances; our greatest fear is that they will feel
Charlie Munger’s secret to a happy marriage: Find Someone who has low expectations
— From Invest Like a Guru – How to Generate Higher Returns at Reduced Risk with Value Investing P.81
A marriage counselor was giving a seminar to a room filled with people seeking marital advice…
— From Invest Like a Guru – How to Generate Higher Returns at Reduced Risk with Value Investing P. 39 … he projected his first slide, the key to a successful marriage, which showed just one phrase: ‘Love each other, forever.’ Participants started to shake their heads and said the sentiment was hard to put
Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, & Machine Learning?
— From The Master Algorithm – How the Quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world by Pedro Domingos P. 67 A conjunctive concept is what Tolstoy had in mind when he wrote the opening sentence of Anna Karenina: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”