Dear men, keep some wins between you and God. The money you finally saved. The business you finally got moving. The peace you fought hard to find. The prayer that finally got answered. You don't have to tell everyone what changed. Enjoy it. Be grateful for it. Protect it.
Krishnamurti on Solitude
“It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree—not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself—and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind. If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.”
Enquanto você procrastina, seus pais envelhecem acreditando numa versão sua que ainda não existe.
Sua mãe aposta em você. Seu pai disfarça o medo. E você aposta na zona de conforto.
O amanhã é a mentira favorita de quem não quer pagar o preço hoje.
Você não está cansado. Está acomodado.
Procrastinar é escolher ser fraco com linguagem educada.
“He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.”
- Plato
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
- Thucydides
Lift weights.
Learn to fight.
Read books.
Learn to write.
Think of it this way:
You are an old man.
Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future.