Daily Letter

Great · Inspiration & Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — ‘Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.’ — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

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When you develop a taste and a hunger for Goodness, you grow alert to it in others. Some people stick out to me, their lambent faces aglow with inner light. In writers, their words glitter with goodwill and sizzle with a repudiation of cynicism.

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Morale starts with your view of life. You're more likely to do great work if you're an optimist, and more likely to if you think of yourself as lucky than if you think of yourself as a victim.

Misc

If the only time you give yourself permission to be wild is in moments of self-destruction, I am so so sorry. May you one day be free from this false dichotomy.

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Time is Irish. The perseverance, the melancholia, the last name O'Clock, etc.