“I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsSometimesProblemHomeHandsAbleFallProcessAttentionFocusComfortDemandIntellectualMental HealthAidsMoodRoutineBad DayAbsorbingBad MoodComfort FoodRumination Author:Maria Popova
“Everybody knows what they were kind of drawn towards or what they're gifted at and it's more of courage and looking at yourself and saying, "I'm going to try something and move back in that direction." So it's less of an intellectual problem and it's more of an emotional problem because as you get into your 30's and 40's you get addicted to a paycheck and a comfort and you delude yourself into thinking this is what my life is and you lack the guts to be honest with yourself and to make that change.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindProblemMovingLife IsHonestEmotionalComfortIntellectualBeing HonestGutsGiftedPaychecksHonest With YourselfBe Honest With YourselfEmotional Problems Author:Robert Greene
“Abraham Lincoln did have intellectual instincts, a tremendous curiosity on a broad range of subjects, and a near-photographic memory for what he read. He was, at the end of the day, a politician: politics were his heaven, said William Herndon. But Lincoln did take comfort in ideas and books, more so than almost any other president, and he went to books and ideas in moments of perplexity to sort things out. Philosopher, no, but thoughtful and "surprisingly well-read" for his day.” BookMomentsHeavenPresidentMemoriesPoliticianComfortIntellectualInstinctCuriosityPhilosopherThoughtful Author:Allen C. Guelzo
“There are intellectual vagabonds, to whom the hereditary dwelling-place of their fathers seems too cramped and oppressive for them to be willing to satisfy themselves with the limited space any more: instead of keeping within the limits of a temperate style of thinking, and taking as inviolable truth what furnishes comfort and tranquility to thousands, they overlap all bounds of the traditional and run wild with their imprudent criticism and untamed mania for doubt, these extravagating vagabonds.” ThinkingSeemsRunningFatherSpaceDoubtStyleWillingComfortLimitsIntellectualCriticismBoundsTraditionalTranquilityDwellingManiaHereditaryUntamedVagabondsDwelling Place Book:The Ego and Its Own Source: The Ego and Its Own
“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.” MovingWealthRoomsMaterialsComfortIntellectualEmptyServantOwnersQuartersPalacesSumptuous Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.” MindLooksIdeasInspirationMoralComfortIntellectualRespectSuperiorityLove And RespectRespect WomenI Respect YouIntellectual Superiority Author:Giuseppe Mazzini