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Quotes that caught my heart.

“There’s always another way, even if you have to get lost to find it.”

From Moana 2

A Swedish proverb says: ‘A shared joy is a double joy; a shared sorrow is a half sorrow.’ When one person shares good news with another, both people are happy. And when one person shares something sad with another, the act of sharing takes some of the sadness away.

Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE TEACHING OF THE DONKEY

One day a farmer’s donkey fell into a well. The animal cried loudly for hours, while the farmer tried to find something to do to get

him out.

Finally, the farmer decided that the donkey was old and the well was already dry and needed to be covered anyway; that it really wasn't worth pulling the donkey out of the well..

Problems, by definition, have solutions. You might not like the cost of the solution, the trade-offs it leads to, or the time and effort it takes, but problems have solutions.

On the other hand, situations don’t. Situations are simply things we need to live with.

Once we realize that a problem we have isn’t a problem at all, but actually a situation,... See more

Working With Problems

There is always something else to strive for – and this keeps most of us in a constant, sometimes painful, state of never-satisfied striving. And that striving for something that we do not yet possess is called desire. Desire doesn’t bring us joy because it is, by definition, always for something we feel we lack.

Luke Burgis • How to Know What You Really Want

stress is a perverted relationship to time, so that rather than being a subject of your own time, you have become its target and victim, and time has become routine

John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Paths are made by walking.

Franz Kafka