Barbara Pearson
@sageandsolace
Barbara Pearson
Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy.
Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder.
Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder.
Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.
Easy has a cost."
Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder.
Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder.
Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoiding every conflict is harder.
Easy has a cost."
Paradoxically, doing hard things makes us happier. Putting ourselves through struggle makes us better equipped to enjoy life.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Our Souls Need Proof of Work
“Now that I’m well, the ways in which we survived—alone and together—have stayed with me, and the more I have thought about them, the more they represent a basic and unavoidable paradox about living which is this: though each of us must go through our suffering alone, no one can make it alone. Though no one can save us from our own feelings, not on
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Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others. But this is the wrong path. The right path is to know that life is short, every day is a gift, and you have certain gifts. Happiness is about understanding that the gift of life should be honored every day by offering your gifts to the world. Don’t let your
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