“Most people—95% of people—are sleepwalking through life. Life is something they see on TV. They’re just trying to get through the day. Life is something that happens to
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Bruce Lee: You Might As Well Be Dead
Here’s a quote I like, from Bruce Lee… You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physically or anything
Thoreau: “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”
From Chapter 1 of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau: “A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to
Hagakure, The Way of the Samurai
“The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be
Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
“But going over the bridge, the sun setting, the skyscrapers gleaming like phosphorescent cadavers, the remembrance of the past set in… remembrance of going back and forth over
Chop Wood and Carry Water
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. Zen saying. P.S. This saying gets a whole chapter in my book. That’s how important
A Letter from Hemingway to Fitzgerald
Here’s an excerpt of a letter from Hemingway (Ernest) to Fitzgerald (F. Scott) that I dug up somewhere… To me a heaven would be a big bull ring
