swissmiss

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly… Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them…throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you…trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly…on tiptoes and no luggage…completely unencumbered.”
– Aldous Huxley

“There’s nothing wrong with lurkers. Lurkers are potential action-takers.For now, though, our focus, our energy and our gratitude is for the people who are already showing up.”

– Seth Godin

“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.”
– Albert Camus

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
— David Ogilvy

(via quotesondesign)

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“Wonderful things can happen when your brain is empty.”
– Maira Kalman

“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome”
– Charlie Munger

“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow.

The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took to years to produce.

Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.”

– Adam Grant

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”
– Jean-Luc Godard

“I said to myself, ‘I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me…shapes and ideas so near to me…so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.’ I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

​“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
–Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”
– Ram Dass

“You have to find your own rainbow to follow. There is no gold at the end of somebody else’s rainbow.”
– Bill Grundfest

(from this epic thread)

“I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good science we could address those problems, but I was wrong.

The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy – and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation and we scientists don’t know how to do that.”

– Gus Speth

“Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.”
– Wes Angelozzi

“Do your little bit of good where you are;
it’s those little bits of good put together
that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu

I am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that I catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what I said to myself
about myself
when I was sixteen and
twentysix and thirtysix
even thirtysix but
I am running into a new year
and i beg what I love and
I leave to forgive me

— Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)