clippings
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Postponing joy
I’ve learned something important by not postponing joy: Nothing catastrophic happens when you make pleasure a higher priority in your daily life. Instead, it softens the edges of the day, stretches time in the most delicious way, and reminds us that life isn’t something to be earned—it’s something to be lived.
— Cheryl Richardson, h/t to Stella
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Smart people stay broke
Life rewards action, not intelligence. The smarter you are, the better your excuses.
— Conor Neill, on why smart people stay broke
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Environment
After a certain age, you are no longer the product of your environment or how you were raised. It’s a personal choice to live the way you do. At some point, blaming your past becomes a distraction from your future. Healing is your responsibility. Growth is your decision.
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Well-being
Nothing makes us safer and happier than ensuring the well-being of everyone.
— From Jens Oliver Meiert
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Unit of intelligence
If you cannot prove that every dollar of electricity you burn is generating a verified unit of intelligence, you are functionally bankrupt.
— Peter Diamandis
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Greenland Shark
For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again. […] I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very idea of them hopeful. They will see us pass through our current spinning apocalypse, and the crash that will come after it, and they will see the currently unimagined things that will come after that: the transformations, revelations, the possible liberations. That is their beauty, and it’s breathtaking: they go on. These slow, odorous, half-blind creatures are perhaps the closest thing to eternal this planet has to offer.
— Katherine Rundell in Consider the Greenland Shark