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OVER TO YOU • What should you work on more slowly than your impatient side wants you to?
Alastair Humphreys • The Doorstep Mile: Live More Adventurously Every Day
Poet and novelist Hermann Hesse on what we all can do:
"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable ... See more
"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable ... See more
3-2-1: On the secret to self-control, how to live longer, and what holds people back
We must practice wise speech, non-contentiousness, generosity, and compassion over and over again, in trivial and important situations alike.