quotes
" Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. "
Howard Thurman
Thomas Klaffke • Aliveness: Reframing Productivity
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"So I’m on this plane and I’m reading the scene and, all of a sudden, I just started bawling," Hugh says. "It’s a sad scene, but more than that, it was the shock of recognition. I did not live in 1930s Korea and yet, when I read that scene about Yangjin going to the rice merchant, I felt like I experienced it in my bones."
Alex Sujong Laughlin • 'Pachinko' explores the dark legacy of Japan’s colonisation of Korea
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Note from Hugh while reading Pachinko
"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you." – Badr Shakir al-Sayyab
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“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
— Cormac McCarthy
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What Friendship feels like. Very true!
Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
MIT OpenCourseWare • How to Speak
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You must mourn the loss of your younger self, the person who has gotten you this far but who is no longer equipped to carry you onward.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
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