Heidi Tan
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Heidi Tan
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
- Your Highlight on page 238
Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.
the things worth pursuing—beauty, truth, impact—demand exposure and risk
The Mountain is You (Brianna Wiest)
- Your Highlight on page 70
You are not as happy as you think you are. The happier you are with something, the less you need other people to be. Instead of wondering whether or not someone else will think you are enough, stop and ask yourself: Is my life enough for me? How do you really feel about your life when
... See moreThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
- Your Highlight on page 112
“First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it. You tried. You were told no. Get over it.”
Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon (Dr. Joe Dispenza)
- Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 959-960
If you keep reproducing the same sequence, in time all those individual steps merge into one automatic program. This is how you lose your free will to a program.
The ultimate competitive advantage is loving what you do. In the long run, it’s hard to beat someone who loves the game.
Kyle Tibbittsx.comLove is more motivating than discipline
What can be better around me, and how can I help bring it about?” This involves regularly scouring my personal and professional environment for areas of improvement.
Arthur C. Brooks • Is Your Ego Too Loud? Here’s How to Hush It.
“What do others need that only I can provide?” This empowers me to do what is uniquely under my control for the people who depend on me.
Arthur C. Brooks • Is Your Ego Too Loud? Here’s How to Hush It.
A Buddhist monk was once told that his mother had died, and he began weeping.
Another monk, witnessing this display of emotion, reproached him:
“You ought to be ashamed of yourself for showing such worldly attachment.”
The first monk looked up, tears still streaming down his face, and replied softly:
“Don’t be silly,” he said. “I’m crying because I... See more
Another monk, witnessing this display of emotion, reproached him:
“You ought to be ashamed of yourself for showing such worldly attachment.”
The first monk looked up, tears still streaming down his face, and replied softly:
“Don’t be silly,” he said. “I’m crying because I... See more
Aamer Janbey • I'm Sad Because I Want To Be Sad
Allowing emotion to move through with openness and not identifying with the emotion, just allowing. Enlightenment does not exclude humanity
The Tao Te Ching tells us:
“Woman, at her birth, is subtle and tender.
In death, she is rigid and hard.
Plants, when they are young, are pliant and soft.
But when dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus, tenderness and softness are the companions of life.
But rigidity and hardness are the companions of death.