Not quotes from famous people — just sentences I overheard, read or wrote, and did not want to lose.
- “Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.”
- “The draft is for you; the edit is for them.”
- “Every street has a quiet side.”
- “Say less, but mean all of it.”
- “Rest is part of the work.”
Why I keep them
A good sentence is a tool. I return to these when I am stuck, rushing, or talking too much. Each one has fixed a bad day at least once.
The second one is taped above my desk. The last one I needed most this month, and it took me the whole month to believe it.
Start your own collection
You do not need a special notebook or app. A note on your phone titled “Sentences” is enough. Whenever a line makes you stop — in a book, a conversation, a film, a shop window — write it down with where it came from.
At the end of each month, choose five. The act of choosing is the real exercise: it forces you to decide which ideas you actually want to live by, rather than which ones merely sounded clever at the time.
Over a year, those sixty sentences become a quiet portrait of what you were learning, even when you did not notice you were learning anything at all.
Which one would you keep?
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