A Good Life
what does it mean to live a good life?
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A Good Life
Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two.
Keep Moving Quotes by Maggie Smith
If you’re actually serious about treating burnout — yours, your partners, your future children’s — you have to be serious about treating it for people you might not even know. If you want to actually make life better, more livable, less of a slog for yourself, that involves making it better for a whole lot of other people as well. For that, you... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • what great inconvenience
“I’m looking for a practice and a journey, not a quick hit.” - Seth Godin
High accomplishment and hard work evoke many reactions, but very few of them are the ones that we want. For all that we want it to be, competence is not warmth. The emotions you get for being competent— faith, gratitude, admiration — are important, but they aren’t enough to fill the void when what you lack in life is warmth, love, and communion.
James Horton • You Can Seek Love Now, Not Later
No easy answers—but perhaps a few new questions.
Don’t give it all away. Don’t even give most of it away. Retrench. Be clear. With yourself, but not necessarily with others. Let the fame wave pass. Live by the sea.
He said it again: “Deepen the mystery. That’s it, isn’t it?”
Don’t give it all away. Don’t even give most of it away. Retrench. Be clear. With yourself, but not necessarily with others. Let the fame wave pass. Live by the sea.
He said it again: “Deepen the mystery. That’s it, isn’t it?”
Daniel Riley • Cillian Murphy Is the Man of the Moment
There are people that talk about things they love and people that talk about things they hate.
Like human happiness, teenage happiness does not flourish when everyone has the freedom to live just as they please. Where there is neither order nor necessity in life—no constraints, no inhibitions, no discomfort—life becomes both relaxing and boring, as American philosopher Allan Bloom notes. A soft imprisonment.
