quote.basket.3.24.2026
guest house, opposites, curiosity, and change
Quote baskets are just quotes that have come up in my life (or substack) recently. If I included them in a longer form post you’ll see it linked below under the quote(s). My Quote Basket Tag has older basket posts.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~ Henry Miller
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao Tzu
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
~ Pericles
The only constant is change -- the only strategy is to act.
~John Picard
Be curious, not judgmental.
~ Walt Whitman, or maybe just Ted Lasso writers, who cares?
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~Winston Churchill
References from my piece Peaks and Valleys
Disease makes health pleasant and good, hunger satiety, weariness rest.
~ Heraclitus
“Life is meant to be felt. Else why live? Valleys make the mountains.”
~ Pierce Brown, Dark Age
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)