Just Quotes [TMP #97]
Pt. 6
It's crazy but not that crazy that it’s exactly a month since TMP #96. In that time, I’ve considered changing my long About page to just this sentence: “I just want to learn, man.” Yay or nay?
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Today’s just quotes from beautiful things I read. Without further ado:
1.
“My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle east in my coracle. When she sinks, I shall swim east with my four paws. And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan’s country, or shot over the edge of the world into some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise.”
Source: ― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2.
“To maintain our health, relationships, careers, skills, knowledge, societies, and possessions requires never-ending effort and vigilance. Disorder is not a mistake; it is our default.”
Source: Natural Disorder, fs blog
3.
Two quotes from Risk and Return, a book by a Nigerian who repatriated from the US to build back home.
“I hadn’t really contemplated that all the degrees in the world, all the academic accomplishments in the world, and all the work ethic in the world, couldn’t protect me from the whims of the marketplace.”
“However, we chose each other because we looked at each other’s life [stories] and thought “This is a guy I could trust with my future.””
ps: the second quote is about finding business partners but works for every time of relationship.
pps: this book is a gift from someone I met from this newsletter. You guys, I mean it when I say thank you for reading my newsletter, I appreciate you 🫶🏾
Bonus cos it’s a beautiful song :)