Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Close the Notebook
Whatever you are trying to solve tonight will look different after sleep. Not smaller, necessarily — clearer. Close the notebook. Morning ha...
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Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Whatever you are trying to solve tonight will look different after sleep. Not smaller, necessarily — clearer. Close the notebook. Morning ha...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The day is finished, and it does not need your verdict. It does not have to have been productive to have been real. Let it end without a per...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
You are allowed to leave something unfinished overnight. The work will keep. You do not have to hold it in your hands while you sleep.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Rest is not the absence of work. It is part of it.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
If you are missing someone tonight, you do not have to explain or resolve it. Missing them is its own form of company. Let the feeling stay...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The night is where you are least performed. Whatever you are when no one is watching is close to the truth. Be gentle with that person. They...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Tomorrow has its own worries and will not be improved by your rehearsing them tonight. Let it wait outside. You have done enough for one day...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
At midnight the house is honest and unstaffed. If you keep its company, you are not failing. Some truths only speak in the quiet.
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Before sleep, name three small things that went right today. Not the achievements — the ordinary mercies. The meal, the kind word, the hour...