Some Lines I Loved Reading
- Love does not exist to make us happy, but to show us how strong we can be in endurance. There is nothing in the world nobler, nor more blissful, than wordless love. To overcome sorrow with a love free of desire — perhaps this is a love that has lost its way, a love that sleeps. The limited satisfaction of the flesh is a person's most basic right. Love is one of the deepest impulses of the human spirit.
—— Bei Dao, quoting Cai Qijiao 2. A person who begins to live more seriously within will also begin to live more simply without. —— True Nobility, Hemingway
- People can only become happy when they do not take it for granted that the purpose of life is happiness.
—— Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation, Jeffrey Meyers
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When you are alone, divide yourself into two halves, so that you can use one half to shape the other. —— The Human Province, Canetti
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In the best times of my life, I always want to clear some room in my heart, and then some more room, where I would shovel away the snow, lift the low-hanging sky a little higher; there is also a flooding sea there, and I let the water spill over — the fish will come to rescue me — the sea drowns the dense forest, and deep in the thicket I will hunt a troop of new monkeys; everything is so vivid, only the place is never big enough, yet I have never asked: what these places are for. I have no answer to: why; I can only keep on, keep on doing this, until I'm utterly exhausted, and only by doing this does my life have value.
—— The Human Province, Canetti, 1942, p8
- So what are investors to do about these psychological impulses that drive them into foolish investments? First, recognize them; this is the first step toward finding the courage to overcome them. Second, see reality clearly. Investors who believe they are immune to the influences described put themselves in danger.
—— The Most Important Thing, Howard Marks
- It's so easy not to care. It takes courage to care.
—— Detachment It takes courage to break away from those who keep urging you to look back. Life is about walking resolutely forward and embracing randomness. 8. Over a very short time scale, what we observe is the variability of the portfolio, not the returns. In other words, we see the variance, little else. I always remind myself that what we observe is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns. Our emotions are not designed to understand this point. —— Fooled by Randomness, Taleb Yes, our emotions can't understand this point; we need to look at "us" and "our emotions" separately. 9. My problem is that I am not rational and am extremely prone to drowning in randomness and to suffering emotionally. I am aware of my need to ruminate on park benches and in cafés away from information, but I can only do so if I am somewhat deprived of it. My sole advantage in life is that I know some of my weaknesses, mainly that I am unable to tame my emotions facing news and unable to keep a clear head. Silence is golden. —— Fooled by Randomness, Taleb 10. Everyone dies. Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it's a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It's a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Our time, however long or short, is but a flash compared to boundless eternity. —— The Big Picture
Today is the day Sora was announced,
I used the prompt from Sora's official announcement to make this image,
to commemorate this era when AI applications change by the day.