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as far as I can tell, the main difference between people who are completely overwhelmed with parenting and those who are having a great time raising t

Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Uncomfortable conversations

Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is har

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” —Charles Bukowski

“Once you grow up, you realize you don’t want to be crazy in love. You want to be calm in love, stable in love, patient in love, understood in love, s

The second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something—such as goodness, truth and beauty—by experiencing nature and culture or, las

The funny thing is, most of us aren’t single because of how we look or what we weigh, our level of education or job description, or whether we asked t

“Happiness is not just a big bolt of joy from thrill rides and amusement parks, or getting the latest gadgets and games. It is unpacked and small dose

Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom

But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that

I think a lot about the fluctuations of belief—the inevitable up and downs of maintaining engagement with something over long periods of time. Most pe

We’re made so uneasy by the experience of allowing reality to unfold at its own speed that when we’re faced with a problem, it feels better to race to

Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is har

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi

Jean-Paul Sartre, damn https://t.co/xTKtipgoCE

But busyness has a way of stealing creativity from you. Generative work, like art and writing, requires long periods of nothingness: it’s only in that

On our run I tell J: the unhealthy version of myself used to abandon things just because they got painful or inconvenient. The healthy part of me find

. “The ‘bad’ workouts are often the most important ones. It’s easy to train when you feel good, but it’s crucial to show up when you don’t feel like i

feel bad to get good

It’s about how it’s critical to have people in your life who love you and see you when you’re fun and sparkly and on top of the world, but also love y

The antidote to overthinking isn't thinking less. It's rethinking more.Overthinking is ruminating on old ideas without a new lens. It narrows your foc

Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car. Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity. Easy t

Most other resources on which we rely as individuals—such as food, money, and electricity—are things that facilitate life, and in some cases it’s poss

One fundamental criterion of a life well lived is love of life. It is terribly important, therefore, to enjoy life as it goes along. Joy cannot be pos

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

The most important features for a product are usually the ones that were built first. Once you get past a certain level of functionality, a lot of the

Discovery consists of seeing what everyone has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.