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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in
“In the second half we discover that it is no longer sufficient to find meaning in being successful. We need a deeper source of purpose.” — Richard R
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and wha
“Individuation is becoming the thing which is not the ego, and that is very strange.” — Carl Jung
Sometimes it’s nice to remember all the other people one has been. Especially when settling into hard-core middle-age. I love being this me, but I lov
When you hit Rock Bottom, it's a sign to pause, rest, and reflect. You've buried your calling deep in your core and suppressed your intuition for so l
You are caught in the river of life’s expectations. For you to be alive and knowingly flow with the stream of consciousness, riding the crest of the w
These astonishing adaptations are the sum total of myriad small defiances of prediction — chances taken on the improbable and the untested, wild guess
“It can be hard to appreciate just how much the world will give you what you want after you stop waiting for it to give you what you deserve. Stop
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themsel
Writer and scholar C.S. Lewis on what why small choices matter: “Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions
Writer and designer Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, on what causes old age: “The producer of old age is habit: the deathl
Alexi Pappas on how the story you tell yourself is the most powerful one in the world. “How you talk about your experiences will dictate how you f
Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at t