For a few years now I’ve been documenting what I call “flashes of insight” in my notes app. Re-reading them just now made me think I should share them. So.. I present you with my a list of insights and quotes from 2020.
Some of these are self-explanatory, while others may confuse you out of context. I’ve notated the source where possible, and the dates reflect the day I recorded the insight.
12/26/2019
There is no past and no future; no one has ever entered those two imaginary kingdoms. There is only the present.
Tolestoy
12/22/19
The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Voltaire and Rilke, respectively
12/20/19
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
― Kurt Vonnegut From A Man Without a Country
12/17/19
Give up the War
Sam Harris
12/11/19
Poker face. Accept. Be.
Get rid of shit you don’t need.
Let go. completely.
This egolessness, which is the key to being authentic is a battle.
Garry Shandling
11/26/19
You can’t teach tenacity
Sam Hollander
11/14/19
There are two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. And the other is as if everything is a miracle.
Einstein – Neri Oxman’s favorite quote – from Abstract on Netflix
10/29/19
A well-flowing life is when we wish for what is going to happen not what we want to happen
Epictetus
10/16/19
The Straightforward and good person should be like a smelly goat — you know when they are in the room with you
Marcus Aurelius
10/1/19
While pain is inevitable, suffering is a choice – everything is fucked.
Mark Manson
9/21/19
That being so, so what
Jerry Colonna – Reboot
9/21/19
What makes all of life complicated, and not just hard, is this unwillingness to do the work that’s ours to do her unwillingness to live the examined life.
Jerry Colonna – Reboot
9/18/19
What if being lost is part of the path? Reboot
Jerry Colonna – Reboot
9/16/19
Don’t mistake motion for meaning
Jerry Colonna – Reboot
6/21
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
6/15/19
Three pillars of happiness: regular exercise, mediation, and constant pursuit of purpose.
Bob Weir – GQ article
6/2/19
Life ultimately means taking responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for the individual
Viktor Frankl – Man’s search for Meaning.
5/28/19
There is only one thing i dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings
Dostoevski
2/17/19
Comparison is death
Liz Gilbert Magic Lessons Podcast
2/6/19
It just doesn’t matter
Tripper from Meatballs (Bill Murray)
1/28/19
The vitality in life is staying a verb
Mark Rohn? Poet on magic lessons podcast – unsure
1/16/19
If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.
William Feather
1/10/19
Any talent you do not use becomes a burden
Liz Gilbert
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