Andrew Lisi

“But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Detestava i cimiteri, con tutti quei monumenti che significavano qualcosa solo per gli iniziati e i parenti del defunto. Un nome, un titolo professionale e una vita comprese tra due date! Tutto qui, come se bastasse. Perché non scriveva invece com’erano vissuti, i morti? Perché si lasciava estinguere ciò che era importante?”
― Bjorn Larsson

“Ho sempre voluto farcela da solo, con i miei sforzi, senza chiedere nulla a nessuno.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Meetings With Remarkable Men

“My recommendation: don’t be special; don’t be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself not as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure yourself by more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator.
The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you. For that reason, define yourself in the simplest and most ordinary ways possible.This often means giving up some grandiose ideas about yourself: that you’re uniquely intelligent, or spectacularly talented, or intimidatingly attractive, or especially victimized in ways other people could never imagine. This means giving up your sense of entitlement and your belief that you’re somehow owed something by this world.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life