Thought provoking
by Raf Noboa y Rivera · updated 3mo ago
Thought provoking
- what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
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- The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
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Don’t do any task in order to get it over with. Resolve to do each job in a relaxed way, with all your attention. Enjoy and be one with your work.
—Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
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“No man was ever wise by chance.” — Seneca
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." — Carl Jung
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“There is no failure in sports.” — Giannis Antetokounmpo
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- the depth of a conversation depends on how deeply seen you feel, not on the topic of conversation
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we are simply incapable of imagining ourselves on the other side of a profound change, because the present self doing the imagining is the very self that needs to have died in order for the future self being imagined to emerge.
This is why the profoundest changes tend to happen not willed but spawned by fertile despair — the surrender at the rock bo
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“There are two kinds of people in the world… and who is not both of them?” — James Richardson
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