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- "Discouragement isn’t the end of the journey — it’s a place to stop and lick your wounds, tend to your heart, catch your breath, and then start again."
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“The secret to change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman
from How To Think About Change by Thomas Klaffke
Julian Paul added 3mo ago
- I do like the rush of rushing. And to an extent, I am quite good at rushing—at doing things in a high-intensity, high-pressure way. But my sense is that I am much better off when I enjoy the pause, slow down, be where I am, and build strength patiently. I’m better off when I remember to take my time, to realize that the journey is long and it shoul... See more
from slow down
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
- “If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
―
Charles de Montesquieufrom A quote by Montesquieu
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
- And when I practice letting go of how I think things are supposed to look and instead cultivate a trust in the unfolding that is taking place, often in unseen ways, the Here-ness of challenge or pain or depression or grief or (anything) softens even 5%, and that 5% adds up fast when I don’t assume it’s nothing.
from To move toward fully living
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
- "The ‘safe path’ is not actually safe. In fact it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous to your dreams. Safety murders your ambition. Murders your sense of adventure. Safety is a serial killer. But it operates in a slow, boring fashion. Like a pillow suffocating an old-man on a hospital bed."
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- “There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”
― Frank Herbert, Dunefrom Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
Julian Paul added 4mo ago
- “You have to be willing to be nobody to have a chance to be who you want to be.”
from Status Limbo | Theory No. 27 by Anu Atluru
Julian Paul added 5mo ago
- One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.
from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog
Julian Paul added 5mo ago