“In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We'd love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.” WorldWayFirstsEndsSeemsOrderChoicesGivenEnjoyForgetLibertyOur LivesAmountValuableSpendingCertaintySettlingObsessedEarningUnlimitedHolding OnQuestionableEarning Money Author:Rolf Potts
“From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth.” MindBookChoicesReadingBearsReaderGeniusLaborSettlingFancyThoughtfulDelicateIdleLeafsSweetnessPerfumeSecrecyFlutteringGlandsThoughtful Mind Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.” LittlesMatterFacesChoicesDecisionSolutionsConsciousCurrentsHorribleRationalCertaintySettlingFinding YourselfFloatsInfallibleMaking DecisionsFrictionRational Decisions Book:INWARD HO! Source: INWARD HO!