Notetaking is like time travel – you are sending packets of knowledge through time to your future self.
– from Building a Second Brain book by Tiago Forte
Category: Quotes
By the time you’re my age …
By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.
– from The Three-Body Problem book by Cixin Liu
A man without a mustache is …
A man without a mustache is exposed and vulnerable, like an unbaptized child, the soul still in jeopardy.
– from The Covenant of Water book by Abraham Verghese
Our lives are literally on loan …
Our lives are literally on loan to us. Despite what we think in our youth, none of us have all that much time.
– from Maybe You Should Talk to Someone book by Lori Gottlieb
It’s not important where we go …
It’s not important where we go. I think it’s a wonderful feeling just being on a journey.
– from The Dark Forest book by Cixin Liu
As I grow older, the one …
As I grow older, the one thing that becomes clearer to me each and every day is that I don’t owe anyone a thing. And neither do you.
– from Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter book by Curtis Jackson
Everything will be okay in the …
Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.
– from The Maid book by Nita Prose
One of the greatest satisfactions of …
One of the greatest satisfactions of gardening is the independence it can confer – from the greengrocer, the florist, the pharmacist, and, for some, the drug dealer.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
In the various phases of my …
In the various phases of my life – […] – I became friends with some extraordinary people. In each of those phases, I became particularly close to a small circle of individuals, and I simply assumed that I would remain close with them forever. Because we were hanging out then, my thinking went, we’d hang out forever. But friendships, I’ve learned, aren’t like that. Things change; people change. Friends mature and move and get married and have children […]. Over time, if you’re lucky, a few – or maybe just a couple – remain from each of the various phases of your life. I’ve been fortunate; I have friends who date back to high school, and yet, I sometimes find myself wondering why some people remain in your life while others drift away. I don’t have the answer to that, other than to observe that friendship has to flow both ways. Both of you have to be willing to invest in the friendship in order to maintain it.
– from The Return book by Nicholas Sparks
Poetry and prayer put ideas in …
Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.
– from The Underground Railroad book by Colson Whitehead