Uberman

Prize Intensity more than Extent.

Excellence resides in quality not in quantity. The best is always few and rare: much lowers value. Even among men giants are commonly the real dwarfs. Some reckon books by the thickness, as if they were written to try the brawn more than the brain. Extent alone never rises above mediocrity: it is the misfortune of universal geniuses that in attempting to be at home everywhere, are so nowhere. Intensity gives eminence, and rises to the heroic in matters sublime.

I will not mince words with you.
You shall find me the only speaker of frank language in your company.
Its heaviness will unravel you
or wind you, as truth well spoken
unsettles all

11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, [ping-pong], all these come afterwards.

“And what, monks, is right effort?

He generates desire, activates persistence, upholds and exerts himself (his intent) for the sake of the arising of skillful qualities that have no yet arisen.”

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. — Lovelle Drachman

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness…to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature…I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walking

T. T. T.

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it’s well to remember that
Things Take Time.

Why give your life to an idea that’s not worth your life?