Life Advice
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Life Advice
Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness:
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much time he is willing to spend being passively entertained.
"The essentials of happiness are: something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for"
“Do nothing, nothing happens. Do something, something happens”
“Serendipity is just momentum plus openness,” he says. “You have to be in
motion. You have to be paying attention.”
-via bob sheard
Figuring out what you want is the central task of adulthood, and it’s not an easy one.
Once you leave formal schooling, you’re catapulted into a world with infinite possibilities. You no longer have to show up at school to avoid detention or ace tests to make your parents proud. You’re finally unshackled from the training wheels of life, and now you... See more
Once you leave formal schooling, you’re catapulted into a world with infinite possibilities. You no longer have to show up at school to avoid detention or ace tests to make your parents proud. You’re finally unshackled from the training wheels of life, and now you... See more
