Deep down I suspect that many gardeners regard themselves as minor-league alchemists, transforming the dross of compost (and water and sunlight) into substances of rare value and beauty and power.
– from This Is Your Mind on Plants book by Michael Pollan
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A …
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A cave that tightened around you, its pinprick of light closing a little more at the end of each desperate, unchanged day.
– from The Four Winds book by Kristin Hannah
Sometimes a useful delusion is better …
Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.
– from The Underground Railroad book by Colson Whitehead
I love scandals about other people …
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
Think, my friend. Arrange your ideas …
Think, my friend. Arrange your ideas. Be methodical. Be orderly. There is the secret of success.
– from Murder on the Links book by Agatha Christie
Notetaking is like time travel …
Notetaking is like time travel – you are sending packets of knowledge through time to your future self.
– from Building a Second Brain book by Tiago Forte
Sometimes change is for the better …
Sometimes change is for the better, and sometimes change isn’t for the better. Modern toilets with a flush are definitely a change for the better. Self-service checkouts are definitely not. Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity. And a life is like that. There’s no need to fear change, or necessarily welcome it, not when you don’t have anything to lose. Change is just what life is. It is the only constant I know.
– from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig
Man was matter. Drop him out …
Man was matter. Drop him out a window and he’ll fall. Set fire to him and he’ll burn. Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage.
– from Catch-22 book by Joseph Heller
I like short poems with weird …
I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that’s what life is like. It rhymes, but not in the way you expect.
– from Turtles All the Way Down book by John Green
A crash at the beginning of …
A crash at the beginning of your investing life is a gift. In fact, any pullback in stock prices is a gift while you are in the process of accumulating your wealth. It allows you to buy more shares for your dollars, on sale if you will.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins