Let it go! 

“YOU fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin’ to be done about it, it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.” – Cormac McCarthy in No Country for Old Men

Just One Sip and No More! 

From James Clear, a master of pithy advice:

“It is not worth it to be greedy over a single transaction. Even if you’re not going to work with the person again. Even if you think word won’t get out. Even if you think this is your one shot to make it. Reputation follows you everywhere.”

I would add this: It’s not just that your reputation follows you everywhere, it’s that the habit of excusing yourself for behaving unethically does, too. If you think you are doing it just this one time and never again, you are fooling yourself.

From Mark Twain: 

“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”

From James Clear: 

“You should always be rooting for the people you know. Not only because you may need their support tomorrow, but also because it feels good to celebrate something. Celebration can rescue your day – even if it is someone else’s victory. Envy will ruin your day – even if you’re actually winning.”

“Searching is half the fun: Life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.” – Jimmy Buffett

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – Gen. George S. Patton

“There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison

“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.” – Taylor Swift

Charles Bukowski on Writing 

* “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

* “If I stop writing, then I am dead. And that’s the only way I’ll stop: dead.”

* “It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”

John Adams, in a letter to his wife, Abigail, after signing the Declaration of Independence: 

“I am apt to believe that it [the signing] will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, illuminations from one end of the continent to the other from this time forward forever more.”