swissmiss

“The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions-but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: the smaller it is, the more of your internal force actually translates into external motion. When you can move from “I should do this” to physically doing it within hours instead of weeks, you’re not just accomplishing more-you’re operating in a fundamentally different mode of being where your thoughts have immediate consequences in the world, where your inner life and outer life are in a constant, tight, conversation.”
– Derek Sivers

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“I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”
– Rebecca Solnit

“The market for something to believe in is infinite.”
– Hugh MacLeod,

(Via this Seth Godin post speaking on integrity)

“Next time I’m about to cast a harsh judgement on a stranger who offends me, can I allow myself instead to see them as the flawed and complex human that they are? Full of heartbreak, loss, ambition and disappointment, walking a volatile path of all the things they’ve ever failed at?”
― Kae Tempest, On Connection

“Another word for creativity is courage.”
– Henri Matisse

point out the good
when you see it.

in life,
in others,
in yourself.

because the world
needs to remember
what kindness and
love look like.

– topher kearby

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor”.
– Henry David Thoreau