Majicman Notes

Got to live to the point of tears. Albert Camus Read more

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. Let everything happen—beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. from The Tenth Muse Read more

My worry is that … you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the “theory of maximum taste.” This theory is based on the idea that… Read more

This is Plutarch’s message: The world is for the taking. Ambition and determination are the means of achieving it. Imitate great men of history, and the world can be yours. Likewise, towering ambition and ceaseless… Read more

Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought. Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia and paranoia is one of the very hardest things to reverse. You do not want to drift… Read more

I like the word ‘gumption’ because it’s so homely and so forlorn and so out of style it looks as if it needs a friend and isn’t likely to reject anyone who comes along. I… Read more

Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace. Najwa Zebian Read more

A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Read more

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. And when darkness comes — as it will — and disaster strikes — as it must — then we will remember that even the… Read more

Spring always feels to me like nature’s annual parade, one that calls us to join a cel­eb­ra­tion of new life and new pos­sib­il­it­ies. This year I real­ise how des­per­ate I am for this dis­play —… Read more