“But maybe its the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises an...”

“Dont sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?”

“What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things were sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope well use, and too light of wha...”

“Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding hes going to scale Kilimanjaro because he cant stop imagining the view from the top, the p...”

“It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we dont mean gaining self-knowledge or understanding ones true nature but rather how at some point you can see most plainly tha...”

“He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which ...”

“People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).”

“If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE businessdont overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, servic...”

“It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.”

“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

“As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”