“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.” 

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I miss writing, creating, and working on bigger projects. YES to that means NO to any games of whack-a-mole.

The great “deloading” phase. This is what I’m experiencing this afternoon, and it makes a Tuesday feel like a lazy Sunday morning. This is when the muse is most likely to visit. I need to get back to the slack.

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is not laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.”

People, even good people, will unknowingly abuse your time to the extent that you let them. Set good rules for all involved to minimize back-and-forth and meaningless communication.

I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

What you do is infinitely more important that how you do it. Efficiency is still important, but is useless unless applied to the right things.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.

True freedom is much more than having enough income and time to do what you want. 

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” 

“The Soul selects her own Society.” 

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” 

“To shut your eyes is to travel.” 

“open me carefully” 

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” 

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.” 

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.” 

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.” 

“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” 

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.