From Failure to Fresh Start
My entire life changed when I realized one truth:
You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom.
The things that make you feel happy in the present are often at odds with the things that make you feel happy in the future.
Acting on short-term freedom—choosing to do the things that create instant happiness—may actually har... See more
You have to sacrifice short-term freedom in order to earn long-term freedom.
The things that make you feel happy in the present are often at odds with the things that make you feel happy in the future.
Acting on short-term freedom—choosing to do the things that create instant happiness—may actually har... See more
Most people never learn that their accomplishments will ultimately fail to provide the relief and happiness we tell ourselves they will. Or they come to understand this only after so much time and money, so many relationships and moments of inner peace, were sacrificed on the altar of achievement.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
I spent so much of my life terrified what I was going to become and whether I was going to be right here, right now. God, how much time did I waste? Afraid I wasn't going to be right here, right now. If I could change the only thing I'd change about my whole life would be fearing less that I wouldn't get right here, the place that I was going anywa
... See moreCan you learn to see failure as a blessing? The purpose of life is to learn.
GPT-3 • What Makes Us Human: An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life's Biggest Questions
I remember sitting on a park bench near my home in Brooklyn one winter morning in 2014, feeling even more anxious than usual about the volume of undone tasks, and suddenly realizing that none of this was ever going to work. I would never succeed in marshaling enough efficiency, self-discipline, and effort to force my way through to the feeling that
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