Simon Muli

The below 7 quotes have shaped my thinking and changed my behavior over the last year. I revisit them often. “Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.” — Arthur Koestler “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.” — Chuck Palahniuk “The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.” — Robert M. Pirsig “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” — Yousuf Karsh “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.” ― Winston Churchill “I will have to remember ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.’” — From The Art of Possibility by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander *** They were all featured in 5-Bullet Friday (tim.blog/friday), my free weekly newsletter, which is a short email of five bullet points sent out each Friday. Each edition describes the five coolest things I’ve found or explored that week, often including books, gadgets, tricks from experts, articles, and weird stuff from all over the world.