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Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life.

Barry Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is less)

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life.

Barry Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is less)

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird)

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

M. scott Peck (The road less traveled)

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Eckhart Tolle (The power of now)

Repetition is a convincing argument.

Shad Helmstetter (What To Say When You Talk To Your Self)

Repetition is a convincing argument.

Shad Helmstetter (What To Say When You Talk To Your Self)

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.

Harper Lee (To kill a mocking bird)

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts

Harper Lee (To kill a mocking bird)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee (To kill a mocking bird)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee (To kill a mocking bird)

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Nobody is superior, Nobody is inferior, But nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

Osho

Nobody is superior, Nobody is inferior, But nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.

Osho

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Haruki Murakami

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Haruki Murakami

If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.

~ LECRAE

If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.

~ LECRAE

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

~ John STEINBECK

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

~ John STEINBECK

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

~ Susan Cain, Quiet

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

~ Susan Cain, Quiet

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