"School requires you to learn about things after the answer has already been decided.

Life requires you to learn about things while the answer is in the process of being decided."

James Clear

"sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy" -- thich nhat hanh

the post office used to have a saying, "in rain or snow, we always go"

— my dad

Author Mary H.K. Choi on the importance of not waiting: "It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early."

"For a few weeks, I started each morning by writing “What do I actually want?” at the top of a blank page. ​

It’s surprising how useful it is to keep asking the same question. Each time, my answer became more precise. ​

Once I knew what I wanted, I turned it into action steps."

James Clear

God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that one is me.

https://adultchildren.org/literature/aca-serenity-prayer/

"Clarity is the elimination of mental clutter. Agility is the elimination of physical clutter. Tranquility is the elimination of spiritual clutter."

James Clear

"Being underestimated is a gift. You don’t have to find motivation."

James clear

Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."