Great minds, great thoughts
by afroviking · 6 things on NewTwos
- To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are - Bruce Lee
- Lack of self-awareness renders us transparent; a soul that knows itself is opaque. - Bruce Lee
- The quality of *being*, in the object’s self, according to its own central idea and purpose, and of growing therefrom and thereto — not criticism by other standards, and adjustments thereto — is the lesson of Nature - Walt Witman
- Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead, so why… be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? - John Updike
- Since the self is made of thoughts and feelings, and those thoughts and feelings are always changing, the constructed self itself is always changing. - Michael W. Taft
- The best intentions are no match for the havoc caused by stress, tiredness, and unusual circumstances. Even though we know these things can negatively impact our decision-making abilities, we override the caution needed to combat them with faith in our rationality. - Ernest Hemingway