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What is worthwhile?

“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 Campbell

Joseph Campbell Quotes (Author of The Power of Myth)

Curiosity is a stance well suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or dislike—whereas the stance of demanding a certain result is frustrated each time things fail to go your way.

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Life is lived in the present moment. Don’t let the pursuit of more stop you from enjoying what you already have - enough.

Ali Abdal

learning occurs when you get lots of feedback tied closely in time to decisions and actions.

Annie Duke • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Addiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience.” It isn’t enough to ply someone with a drug or a behavior—that person also has to learn that the experience is a viable treatment for whatever ails them psychologically.

Daily Review | Readwise

Irresistible -Adam Alter

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things y... See more

Personal Renewal

“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”

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C.Neil Strait

A quote by C.Neil Strait

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

Harvard University • How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research

gradually discovered that ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened.