— 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
Marshall Goldsmith on self-limiting beliefs:
“I think we have a lot of self-limiting beliefs. And the self-limiting beliefs, a lot of these come from inside us. Basically, I can’t do this. I can’t do that. This is just the way I am. One of the most common problems is, this is just the way I am as if we have
One of the novel’s protagonists — a young black woman in 1930s Philadelphia — becomes an emissary of the power of music as an instrument of self-discovery and self-possession, a living testament to song as the pulse-beat of the soul
— Maria Popova Self-possession: “the state or feeling of being calm, confident, and in control of one’s feelings; composure.” — Dictionary “What is self-possession in philosophy? Self-possession is just that: not being possessed by someone else. It is achieved not through controlling ourselves, but through recognising how we unwittingly cede power to others, and then ceasing
Justice at all costs is not justice
― Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Justice. If only we knew what it was
― Socrates