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7. Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men https://t.co/Vk8ZCYv0Xe

8 Japanese philosophies that will change your life:

A few years ago, I told a friend that l was feeling bummed, like nothing was really clicking. He said to me, "Remember in baseball, if a batter fails 7 out of 10 times throughout their career, they're likely a Hall of Famer." I think about that quote now all the time.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the… Show more

you may think this is silly but humans get stuck all the time as the dog in more abstract versions of this exact situation and a lot of ‘healing’ moves are just the higher-dimensional equivalent of opening the invisible door

Any time you identify a wasteland element in your life—illness, boredom, lethargy, alienation, emptiness, loss, addiction, failure, anger, or outrage—it is time to take a journey. You can be called to the quest by such dissatisfaction or simply by a desire for adventure~C Pearson

Male self help is about self control. Female self help is about self love. I find this fascinating.

@Jarsen Everyone should just stop reading self help books that make them feel like everything is in their control and start reading Thomas Hardy novels where people end up in crushing poverty because their sheepdog accidentally herded the whole flock off a cliff.

5. Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

People are rarely truly stuck... They are just in patterns of behavior that aren't serving them...and usually don't see it.