Practical Flânerie

Flâneur Life

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What is a Flâneur? An Incomplete Guide to the Meaning and Philosophy

Our most valuable thoughts are often those that arise by chance at the moments we least expect them. There’s the brilliant business idea when you’re walking down the sidewalk, in no particular hurry to get where you’re going, merely taking in the sights and sounds. The drowsy midnight discovery that wakes you up from your pre-sleep hypnotic trance. The elevator epiphany. Traffic light insight. Bathtub revelation. It’s these random moments that are the raison

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37 Famous Quotes About Exploration

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.

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Killer Quotes, Practical Flânerie

32 Quotes About Options in Life and Creating Optionality

“Options, any options, by allowing you more upside than downside, are vectors of antifragility. If you “have optionality,” you don’t have much need for what is commonly called intelligence, knowledge, insight, skills, and these complicated things that take place in our brain cells. For you don’t have to be right that often. All you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself (some acts of omission) and recognize favorable outcomes

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Flâneur Quotes: A Collection of Words Related to the Art of Flânerie

Ah yes, the flâneur. The connoisseur of the street. He began as a literary figure and thanks to many commentators over the years, has evolved into a practical life philosophy. Here are some quotes and words related to the concept of the flâneur and his (or her) pastime, flânerie. Flâneur Quote from Edgar Allen Poe I felt singularly aroused, startled, fascinated. “How wild a history,” I said to myself, “is written within that bosom!” Then came

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26 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Solitude

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for

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Quotes About Slowing Down in Life (For the Flâneurs of the World)

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.” Shakespeare “Slower, it turns out, often means better—better health, better work, better business, better family life, better exercise, better cuisine and better sex.” Carl Honoré “Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” Eddie Cantor “Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler.”

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