Majicman Notes

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

Fear is something very important. If you don’t feel it, you’re stupid, right? Like, fear is an evolutionary phenomenon that informs us when we need to move out of a place. What you learn to… Read more

Tadao Ando on the inspiration for his remaking of the Bourse de Commerce: “Fifty years ago, I visited the Pantheon in Rome. No one else was there. As I stood, looking up, I came to… Read more

There are so many things in life where distinguishing between sustainable momentum and temporary luck is only known with hindsight. Maybe the broadest way to protect yourself is the simple rule that the luckier you… Read more