#si

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. ↗

#brian-tracy #educational #expectation #expectations #life

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century. ↗

— Jeff Healey

#both #century #different #different styles #early

Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy. ↗

— Josephine Yun

#music #rock #intelligence

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#enthusiasm #habits #life #life

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#jealousy #marriage #possession #jealousy

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way... ↗