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These 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your Life
“If you are uncomfortable—in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused —you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” – Glennon Doyle
Certainty is the enemy of growth.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach To Living A Good Life
Happiness too often seems to be less a reflection of our actual happiness and more a reflection of the ways in which we compare ourselves to others.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Meanwhile, improving by 1 percent isn’t particularly notable— sometimes it isn’t even noticeable—but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
The quality of life is determined by the quality of thoughts.
What does it matter how much a man has laid up in his safe, or in his warehouse, how large are his flocks and how fat his dividends, if he covets his neighbour's property, and reckons, not his past gains, but his hopes of gains to come? Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what
... See moreLucius Annaeus Seneca • Seneca's Letters From a Stoic
What does it matter how much a man has laid up in his safe, or in his warehouse, how large are his flocks and how fat his dividends, if he covets his neighbour's property, and reckons, not his past gains, but his hopes of gains to come? Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what
... See moreLucius Annaeus Seneca • Seneca's Letters From a Stoic
People who become great at something become great because they understand that they’re not already great—they are mediocre, they are average—and that they could be so much better.