Inspirational Bites for Daily Living
Short stories, thoughts, wisdom, quotes and inspiration for day to day life.
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Inspirational Bites for Daily Living
Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:
"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
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"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.
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If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
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What is a good man but a bad man's teacher?
What is a bad man but a good man's job?
If you don't understand this, you will go astray,
no matter how intelligent you are.
That is the great secret.
(Lao Tzu)
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Being present is the opposite of missing out on life.
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“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s” - Carl Jung
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“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk[.]”
(John Keats in a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley, August 16, 1820)
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[Chill.] A definition
the sudden awareness that no one knows what they're doing
And life is short.
And much of what you’re worrying about right now, in the fullness of time, just doesn’t matter.
You may not “got this.”
You may not “figure it out”
You may not be have the perfect plan.
But neither do the rest of us.
So take a deep breath, smile and relish t
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