Lines Worth Keeping
These are lines from my own books and reflections that carry a whole idea in a sentence or two. For years my notebooks held other people’s words. This page holds lines from my own writing.
Jimmy T. Singh
Becoming and Courage
Know your origin. It will keep reminding you of what the journey is for.
An educated mind does not simply know more. It sees more.
The fear was not the thing standing in the way. It was the marker showing me where the next step was.
Fear, in my experience, tends to speak first. The proof that it was wrong rarely arrives before you move. It arrives after.
A step that looks backward on paper is not always a step backward in a life.
The promotion I was waiting for was sometimes waiting on me.
The wave goes down. It comes back up. Be standing when it does.
Family, Presence, and Gratitude
Family is not the backdrop to the story of your life. Family is the story.
Gratitude is most valuable when it is expressed while the person who inspired it can receive it.
Some debts cannot be repaid to the person who is owed them.
The conditions are rarely optimal. The conditions are what they are. Joy lives inside them or not at all.
Character, Money, and Legacy
Humility is not weakness. It is memory. And without it, success becomes a much lonelier place than it needed to be.
Debt is expensive in ways that extend beyond the interest rate.
A good life is rarely visible while it is being built.
The question is not what you will leave behind. The question is what you are leaving behind, right now, with every decision you make.
That is not luck. That is legacy. Pass it on.
Everything was built. And, as long as I am here, I am still building.
Every line on this page is quoted exactly as it appears in its source. You are welcome to share a line with credit to Jimmy T. Singh.