Join Notes

A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .

I sometimes had the feeling that I myself was not breathing but—strange as this may sound—being breathed.

Zen in the Art of Archery

Herrigel Eugen and R. F. C. Hull

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that natural philosophy is only a world-exposition and world-arrangement (according to us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation;

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.

Atomic Habits

James Clear

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