2010s
Context: The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
“You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday”
In an interview shortly before he was killed, responding to a question by David Frost about how his obituary should read.
Context: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.”
No Other Way.
Song lyrics, In Between Dreams (2005)
“I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.”
They Call Me Tater Salad
“And I'd never know where you'd gonna be next
But I'd know that you'd surprise me.”
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
