Alex Glass
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Alex Glass
- Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
from When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
“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 doses of laughter with your siblings, wandering the park alone or with your pet, being a chatterbox with your pals, snuggling with loved ones on Sunday mornings, listening to your friends, without advisin
... See morefrom My 10 Favorite Quotes in Positive Psychology — DAN TOMASULO by Daniel Tomasulo
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 postponed. Life as is is of infinite value.
from The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays by Irving Greenberg
- Where am I going with design? That's a hard question because none of us has the ability to understand our path until it's over.
from On the Shoulders of Giants
There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding
from Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar by cheryl strayed
- "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." — Ernest Hemingway
The insatiable goals to acquire more, succeed conspicuously, and be as attractive as possible lead us to objectify one another, and even ourselves. When people see themselves as little more than their attractive bodies, jobs, or bank accounts, it brings great suffering…You become a heartless taskmaster to yourself, seeing yourself as nothing more
... See morefrom How to Want Less by Arthur Brooks
Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in w
... See morefrom Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen
- In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on g... See more
from Glimpsing God by Nadia