💡 The key to building something great is persistence + being helpful. Not just asking for something, but offering something. You always have something to offer if you’re curious & engaged. You can always trade and barter good ideas; you can always be kind and find a way to help.
Gratitude is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us.
- DW from Consolations
I don’t need to hear about all the despicable folk. They’re loud and easy to see through. Instead, show me the good people quietly going about their business. They are ones I will follow. They are the magic in the world.
When we think about fear, there are two types, legitimate fear for which there is some valid basis and fear that is rooted in our mental projections. There’s a Tibetan saying that if you let your mind run wild, you’ll see a robber in an empty house.
There's no such thing as 'quality' time:
Time is time.
In fact, as Jerry Seinfeld said, garbage time — eating cereal together late at night, laying around on the couch — is actually the best time.
Forget chasing HUGE experiences.
It’s all wonderful, if you so choose.