The most valuable thing in life isn’t money, it’s true friendship.
"A friend is someone who's going to support you in difficult times. I suppose a friend in need is a friend indeed, like if someone's still supporting you when the chips are down, that's a friend."
— @elonmusk
Zoran Madžirov was a percussionist, composer and inventor of the Bottlephone.
Here he's seen performing Carmen with only bottles using the volume of water for regulating the pitch of the sound.
[📹 Mariana Musotti]
Seeker: "I need to take control of my life."
Sage: "Did you choose to be born?"
Seeker: "No."
Sage: "Did you choose your parents?"
Seeker: "No."
Sage: "Did you choose your first thought this morning?"
Seeker: "Not really."
Sage: "What about your next thought?"
Seeker: "I can choose what to think."
Sage: "Then choose not to think for the next five minutes."
Seeker: "That's impossible."
Sage: "Yet you believe you're controlling the mind?"
Seeker: "But I can control my actions."
Sage: "Where does the impulse to act come from?"
Seeker: "My thoughts."
Sage: "And you just admitted you don't control those."
Seeker: "So I'm not in control?"
Sage: "Life was unfolding long before you claimed to be its author."
ELON MUSK: "I'll get audiobooks because I got, like, so much going on in my mind when I. It's kind of hard to go to sleep because it's like having a computer browser with, like, 100 tabs open. That's, by the end of the day, I got, like, 100 tabs open. It's like how do I close this browser, you know? That's my brain."