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We shall always be at the beginning of infinity. Never satisfied

But one of the core rules to make the Zettelkasten work for you is to use your own words, instead of just copying and pasting something you believe is useful or insightful.

You should always translate information to knowledge by adding context and relevance.

Each new Zettel needs to be placed in some relationship to another Zettel.

Starting is always better than not doing a thing.

Put yourself on a collision course for what you want.

Happiness is both a dream and a phantom, the further we seek it the further we are left behind.

~ Adapted from Hewitt

Your creation will be imperfect, as you are imperfect. And from our imperfections, the power of the unpredictable and the beauty of the unknown will arise.

~ @Spatial_Punnk

Cultivate a relationship with risk.

~ Cait Scudder

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

~ Confucius

It's hard for me to think of a single democratic advance in this country that was not accompanied by if not occasioned by an intense polarization in the socciety.

~ Corey Robin

The past is a ghost, insubstantial, unaffecting. Only the future has weight.

~ Educated A Memoir Author

When you ask the world for healing, you begin to see it everywhere you look.

~ Emily Pennington

Courage isn't something we're born with; it's forged in the fire of our own experience.

~ Emily Pennington

I am very concerned that our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence.

~ Fred Rogers

Decolonize time from the empire of the present.

~ From an interview with Srecko Horvat, interviewer.

If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.

~ Jen Sincero

The real path to happiness, they were telling me, comes from dismantling our ego walls—from letting yourself flow into other people's stories and letting their stories flow into yours;

~ Johann Hari

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

~ John Philpot Curran

Sure, I go to the library for books, but also sometimes I go just to exist in a space that's welcoming, organized, comfortable, judgement-free, and run by knowledgeable, helpful, passionate people, because that energy is straight up medicinal.

~ Jonathan Edward Durham

Stalk yourself.

~ Kevin Cokley

It takes courage to accept and fully live the lives we have been given.

~ How We Learn to be Brave | Mariann Edgar Budde

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society

~ Mark Vonnegut - Jiddu Krishnamurti

As I make hundreds of small choices throughout the day, I'm building a life—but at one and the same time, I'm closing off the possibility of countless others, forever.

~ Oliver Burkeman

You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot prevent spring from coming.

~ Pablo Neruda

That is a very powerful thing, to tell someone who feels perhaps they own very little, to find out they own the world.

~ Shelton Johnson

Prisoners to the illusion of the ideal.

~ Republic | Socrates

I think that's just how the world will come to an end; to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.

~ Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or 1843

Your melanchalia is a luxury.

~ Srećko Horvat

Remembering and speaking give birth to resistance.

~ Srećko Horvat

...our task today is to be aware of the steps we are taking: to realize that the real question is not how did all this - Donald Trump, the disintegration of the EU, refugee camps, walls, climate change and new wars- come about, but what were the steps we ourselves took during all this.

~ Srećko Horvat

Be aware of your passion, follow your passion, use the apocalypse as an opportunity for reflection, and create a world in which you want to live.

~ Srecko Horvat, 2021 - Interview on the Urbanistica Podcast

You were there when I needed you, even if you didn't know it.

~ Unknown