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Better, I believe, to maintain hope amid life’s uncertainties—but to distinguish hope from optimism. Many people use the terms almost interchangeably, but they are different. Optimism involves an element of prediction—as we just saw, expecting a good outcome in a way that may be borderline delusional. Hope involves a belief that even if a disappoin... See more
How to Deal With Disappointment
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Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience.
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
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Quote from CS Lewis from Packy McCormick’s Election Day newsletter entitled, “Read More Books.”
“Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness.”
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
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Instead, I simply want to posit one idea for your consideration: Enchantment is just the measure of the quality of our attention.1
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this req... See more
In other words, what if we experience the world as disenchanted because, in part, enchantment is an effect of a certain kind of attention we bring to bear on the world and we are now generally habituated against this req... See more
L. M. Sacasas • If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
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For years and years I struggled just to love my life. And then the butterfly rose, weightless, in the wind. “Don’t love your life too much,” it said, and vanished into the world.
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
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Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver • Dream Work
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I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.
― Norm Macdonald, 2016
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As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive to be firemen, we do not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES.
But don’t misunderstand me. I don’t mean that we can’t BE firemen, bankers, or doctors— but that we must make the goal conform to the individual, ra
... See moreFarnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
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Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life!
James Joyce • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (AmazonClassics Edition)
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