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What is worthwhile?

Been thinking about the meaning of life lately It has no meaning. This is more effective than trying to find something deeper We’re here and then we’re gone. That’s it. It’s all a big game and you only get one ride. Enjoy the ride. https://t.co/ncgWFTJ9bo

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Having a strong sense of controlling one’s life is a more dependable predictor of positive feelings of wellbeing than any of the objective conditions of life we have considered.

Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

“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

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.

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Irresistible -Adam Alter

Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.

Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

If you want to understand someone’s identity, ask: Where do you want to belong?

Jessica Hagy • Ten Infrequently Asked Questions

He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Don DeLillo • White Noise

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.

Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

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Michel de Montaigne,

The Complete Essays