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For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.
from How to stop worrying & start living by Dale Carnegie
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- “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbellfrom Joseph Campbell Quotes (Author of The Power of Myth)
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“Every day is a lesson. The key is to listen.”
from Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus by Jesse Itzler
Eli added 2mo ago
- A number of observational studies have indicated that volunteering is associated with improvements in various aspects of well-being. In some sense, volunteering and regularly participating in various volunteering activities and organizations is a commitment to repeated acts of kindness, generally directed to an important goal of improving the life ... See more
from How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research by Harvard University
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- 40% DECLINE
...from the 1970s to the 1990s in the number of Americans who attended even one public meeting on town or school affairs in the previous yearfrom JOIN OR DIE: A movie about why you should join a club
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community is important. It is declining.
- “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
―
Michel de Montaigne,
The Complete Essaysfrom A quote from The Complete Essays
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- Die With Zero
Bill Perkins
Unfortunately, in real life you rarely get an exact date for when you will no longer be able to do something—these things just seem to fade away. And until they’re gone...from Daily Review | Readwise by Nico Walker
Eli added 2mo ago
To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.
from The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship by David Whyte
Eli added 4mo ago
Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.
from Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
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