You are not free until you get to the point where you have nothing to prove and aren’t trying to impress anybody.
Apr 302014
Apr 292014
Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when we don’t want to do it.
– Author unknown
Barry Popik’s discussion of source and inspiration of this quote
Apr 282014
Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
– Thomas Paine, Public Good, 1780
Apr 272014
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in ’t!
– Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1
Apr 262014
The things you own, end up owning you.
– Tyler, Fight Club
Apr 252014
You can be someone’s friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren’t their friend. Their lover maybe, but not their friend.
– Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains
Apr 242014
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind — even if your voice shakes.