Four Questions
How many hours do you think you waste every week complaining about things that happened to you that are out of your control? How much time do you spend worrying about things that might happen…
Category: USA
Today’s One-Liner (#304)
Do you have any idea how powerful an hour a day is? –Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Expanding the Circle
When we live narrowly unto ourselves, we have only one person working for us. When we are habitually thoughtful of others, a great many people are working and pulling for us. –David Dunn, Try Giving…
An Exchange on America
The following arrived in my in-box today as I am a subscriber to journalist Matt Taibbi‘s Substack. Monty Python’s “What Have the Romans… Reader Paul E.–Are you a card-carrying Exceptionalist, Matt, that you believe this…
Catholic Jack
As Kerouac aged, he reclaimed the Catholic identity he had inherited from his devout parents, although to the reader, the influence was often muffled under the Benzedrine and booze-fueled bacchanalia of his youth, especially when…
Choose
We must decide whether our top priority is to smite the wicked or to advance the less fortunate, whether we are looking for visions and rhetoric that make us feel good for the moment or…
Today’s One-Liner (#279)
And while it’s nice to feel virtuous, it’s worth considering whether feeling virtuous and being virtuous are actually the same thing. –Bret Easton Ellis, White, 89
Today’s One-Liner (#251)
I contain multitudes. –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Today’s One-Liner (#243)
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. –William James, Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals
Soulwork
“One big thing is to develop a strenuous accountability (you see it’s moral, no gadgets invade man’s true necessity), and the habit, the daily labor of writing en passant, keep a vast and cosmic diary….