The mark of the leader is the ability to make decisions. The mark of the survivor is knowing when not to.
EL Kersten (despair.com)
Quotes
#91 – Howes on Dreams
Your job is to create a vision that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning. If it doesn’t, go back to bed until you have a bigger dream.
Lewis Howes
#90 Thoreau – Laws & Justice
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
Henry David Thoreau
#89 – Kaling on Sleep
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
Mindy Kaling
#88 Mendelsohn on Medicine
Too often, the risk of careless or needless medical intervention is greater than the dangers of the illness itself.
Robert S. Mendelsohn
#87 – Yalom on Kids
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.
Irvin Yalom
86 – Singer – Surrender
The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything.
Michael A. Singer
#85 – Clarke on Religion
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Arthur C. Clarke
#84 – Silverstein, Addiction
“Well, that is that,” says Baba Fats, sitting back down on his stone, Facing another thousand years of talking to God, alone. “Yes, Lord, it’s always the same… old men or bright-eyed youth… It’s always easier to sell ’em some shit than it is to tell them the truth…”
Shel Silverstein
#83 – Glanz, Love & Communism
Love was just like communism. It was a great idea but never quite worked out.
Peter Glanz
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