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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve
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“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
― erma bombeck
"If you don’t choose how to use your time, others will choose for you. If you don’t choose what is important, others will choose for you. If you don’t choose what to think or believe, others will choose for you." (markmanson.net, Did You Decide Who You Are? (Or Did Someone Else?))
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
Your brain is for having ideas, not for storing them.
Sari Azout • Problems Sublime Solves—at Least for Me
“Correct your mistakes before they become your habits.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On Correcting Mistakes, Youth, and Focus | James Clear
Take the small things seriously, because small things become big things.
— Sahil Bloom
Some social scientists and even philosophers suggest a different vision of friendship, in which friendship is conceived not as a ledger of emotional debits and credits but as an organic creation — an artwork — built by the friends themselves. Conceived in this way, friendships are not ranked or stratified along a bright line from BFF to near... See more