Majicman Notes

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not… Read more

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/benjamin-disraeli-the-earl-of-beaconsfield Read more

“Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god.” Constantin Brancusi https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/constantin-brancusi-800 Read more

He renounced more power than any other person in history, and by doing that he saved more people than any other person in history. Yuval Noah Harari https://x.com/harari_yuval/status/1564931421453557761?s=46&t=5Qe_ebF_Lt6l17txN5XbqA Read more

In Vietnamese, ‘to make’ is the same as ‘to be’,” Vuong says. “One is not a son, one does son-ness . . . we have to work to earn our position in the world. Even… Read more

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill Read more

“If I could talk to myself twenty years ago, I would tell myself to focus on my strengths, and not on my weaknesses; on the things I could do and not the things I couldn’t… Read more

Hunger for life, for a future, for color—a hunger grown not in a matter of months but years. They say faith moves mountains, but hunger is never far behind. Susana Lopez Rubio The Price of… Read more

How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can… Read more

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.” — Honoré de Balzac Read more