Majicman Notes

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear. Publilius Syrus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publilius_Syrus Read more

There comes a moment, when the barbarian is within, to draw a line, to say enough, to speak out, to make a stand whatever the cost. The desperation of mortality can also yield the lucidity… Read more

The hope of our time rests with those who can summon the conviction and restraint to make sense of our condition and repair the civic life on which democracy depends. Michael Sandel https://scholar.harvard.edu/sandel/home Read more

The farmer steadfastly refrained from thinking of things in terms of gain or loss, advantage or disadvantage, because one never knows… In fact we never really know whether an event is fortune or misfortune, we… Read more

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.… Read more

Sometimesif you move carefullythrough the forest, breathinglike the onesin the old stories, who could crossa shimmering bed of leaveswithout a sound, you come to a placewhose only task is to trouble youwith tinybut frightening requests,… Read more

Suffering meant feelings of anger, fear, intolerance and false hope, as well as bodily pain. These were man’s enemies, rather than other people. But just as such suffering was inevitable, so too it could be… Read more

I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world. A shelf of books is a shelf of many lives and ideas and imaginations which the reader can enjoy whenever he wishes and as often as… Read more

Unfortunately, most of us, most of the time, don’t have a bias toward action. We don’t start a conversation with the cute stranger we’ve been admiring. We don’t ask for the raise we feel we’ve… Read more

Champions behave like champions before they are champions Bill Walsh Read more