A Look Back: 25 in 5
Recapping issues 1-25 — 5.0 minute read
👋 Hey phi-lazy-phers
Last week was the 25th issue of this newsletter. To celebrate, I thought it’d be fun to take a look back and share my favorite quote from each issue. Let’s dive right in.
Ayelet Waldman
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
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Epicurus
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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Nikki Giovanni
She knows who she is because she knows who she isn't.
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Seneca
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Courtney C. Stevens
If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you keep doing what you're doing, you're going to keep getting what you're getting. You want change, make some.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
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Confucius
We have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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Lao Tzu
Time is a created thing. To say “I don't have time,” is like saying, “I don't want to.”
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Albert Camus
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
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bell hooks
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as means of escape.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
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John Muir
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
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Marcus Aurelius
Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. Now.
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Epictetus
Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
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Viktor Frankl
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
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Hannah Whitall Smith
The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.
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Rumi
Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.
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Naval Ravikant
Feel free to skip around; it’s your book. There are books that I’ve literally started in the middle. I’ve read near to the end and then I’ve put it down…That liberation, that freedom just allows me to read.
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Carl Sagan
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
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Pema Chödrön
Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.
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Seneca
The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
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bell hooks
Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
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Deepak Chopra
Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.
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Seneca
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more who is poor.
To subscribers old and new, thank you all for reading, sharing, and being a part of this journey. Here’s to the next 25.
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✌️ Until next week, happy philosophizing.
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