(Source: thepursuitaesthetic)
"The girl or the world, you see someone gotta loose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose. What good is all the cash if it doesn’t buy time… and what good is being famous if I’m never on your mind."
(Source: thepursuitaesthetic)
"These statements are incompatible: “I am richer than you, so I am superior to you”; “I am more eloquent than you, so I am superior to you”. These are more compatible: “I am richer than you, so my property is superior to yours”; “I am more eloquent than you, so my eloquence is superior to yours”. But you are neither property nor eloquence.
Someone bathes quickly: do not say, “He bathes badly”, but “He bathes quickly”. Someone drinks much wine: do not say, “He drinks badly”, but “He drinks much”. For before knowing his motives, how do you know that it is bad?"
Someone bathes quickly: do not say, “He bathes badly”, but “He bathes quickly”. Someone drinks much wine: do not say, “He drinks badly”, but “He drinks much”. For before knowing his motives, how do you know that it is bad?"
— Epictetus
(Source: theminimalisto, via s-mple)
"Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person’s own life."
— Epictetus
"A solid website is deceptively simple and most people over think it. All you need to remember is to make it extremely easy to see your work, contact you, and learn about you. Link to your social media profiles, why not. But don’t clutter up your site and try to make it “fancy” if that’s not your expertise."
— Jeff Finley
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People have a box that they live in, whether it be their country or their neighborhood, and with that worldview, they end up fighting for turf in this little box, fighting over changes that they don’t like.
And in truth, that’s a pretty enslaving battle. If you’re going to fight that battle, you’re going to lose, because things are going to change, there’s no way to prevent it. If they’re not changing in your favour, then that’s just the way it is.
I’m trying to get people to realize that this box, the system everyone believes in, is a complete fallacy. I don’t want to start quoting the Matrix, but seriously, a lot of things that western society deems important – our FICO scores, whether we own or rent, our position in the rat race, etc. are complete nonsense.
Extensive travel is one of the ways to step outside of the box and see all of that garbage for what it really is.
You see just as soon as you go somewhere, the way you previously viewed an area, the way you viewed the people, they way you viewed your own opportunities, probably came from people who had no first-hand experience and it was all hearsay. You suddenly find lots of opportunity there because you’d freed yourself from this artificial mental construct that kept you confined to a singular geography.
"— Simon Black
