Inspire

A few things that inspire me.

Generally

Good rain knows the best time to fall - squid game, Chinese proverb

There aren't easy shortcuts for reading. If you want to be well read, you just need to spend a lot of time reading.

Books are the nearest thing to a time machine humans have ever made. - James Clear

You can trap bees on the bottom of mason jars without lids, because they walk around bumping into the glass bitterly, and all they have to do is look up.

Graveyards are full of indispensable people.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys. - Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Live A Big Life

The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you can not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed in the woods like timid deer! - Friedrich Nietzsche

Have Fun

“There's no way to win at life. It might feel like you're winning if you have millions of dollars and are beloved by your peers or have lots of beautiful babies or whatever. By all means, do those things if you want! But you're still a hunk of meat and everything you want is programmed into you by the ruthless logic of evolution. In the long-run, entropy eats the universe and we’re all forgotten. I'm always surprised how few people dedicate their lives to weirder things. Why not buy a big chunk of desert and paint it green? Why not study how to brew tea that raccoons would like? It’s up to you and there are no wrong answers.” — Dynomight

Pay Attention

The natural tendency of attention, when left to itself, is to wander to every new things; and so soon as the interest of its object is over, so soon as nothing new is to be, noticed there, it passes, in spite of our will, to something else. If you wish to keep it up upon one in the same object, you seek constantly to find out something new about the latter, especially if other powerful impressions are attracting us away. -- Hermann von Helmholtz physicist and physician.

Writing

"(...) a good sentence floating around your head is worth approximately nothing without the ability to write that sentence down, to gird it with other, slightly lesser sentences, to write not just the one sentence that sings to you but all the other ones, too, the ones that are ultimately necessary to turn what we call an “idea” into what we might call an “essay”. An essay is not the process of translating a fully-formed idea into words on a page; it is the process of discovering and testing an idea by challenging it with form, syntax, structure. The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental condition of the writer, and it is precisely through that friction that we discover what it is we actually have to say." - Choosing to Walk by Rayne Fisher-Quann

"When I find it difficult to write, I simply don’t. I read instead. I watch live music and old films on sketchy links and try to take in more than I put out. I accept that I am waning, not waxing." The Myth of Writer's Block by Eliza McClamb

Seasons

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. --Ecclesiastes 3