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Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay atten

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget loves and betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screame

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16 Life-Learnings From 16 Years of the Marginalian

Then came the existentialists—Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir—who picked up where Nietzsche left off. They said, “We’re free now. We get to create ourselve

‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen

It is important to underscore that many of us do not have the resources or stability that offers us the space to dream. Dreaming is a privilege in and

You can tell a lot about a person and how they think about their work based on whether or not they use “content” to describe what they do. A photograp

You don't need a goal, you need a theme: "With a theme, happiness becomes more about how you behave rather than what you achieve. Life is not a ser

Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.

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 t

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” —Terry Pratchett

Writing increases your rate of revelation. This is true irrespective of the subject because writing is a process of reflection, assertion, and iterati