Eli
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Eli
You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
Prof. Feynmanx.comAnxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far
Jodi Picoult
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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been
... See moreFor many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
Scenius, which I think of as the power of community in creativity. None of us are successful on our own: who you surround yourself with matters, both in how they lift you and how you lift them.
the problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will.