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🦉 Wisdom
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Melville values authentic failure above derivative success.
“From that hour I clove to him for a friend, and a friend we were, and are forever.”
— Herman Melville
“He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.”
“In the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti full of peace and joy but encompassed by all the horrors of the half-lived life.”
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads through family.”
“It is not down in any map true places never are”
“It is not down on any map because true places of wonder never are found on ordinary charts”
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
— Matsuo Bashō
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
— John Mason
“The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists.”
— Adam Grant
“I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I am the first Simone Biles.”
— Simone Biles
“Being original does not require being first it just means being different and better”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
— Oscar Wilde
