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Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.
(J. D. McClatchy)
The surest sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness.
(Michel de Montaigne)
We spend our whole lives hurrying to the end, only to realize that we want to go back to what we hurried past. Life is in the small moments, not the big ones.
If a person is strong, every failure they experience is taken to be a useful lesson, making them tougher and more experienced. Find joy in all parts of your world and you will transform it into paradise. This is of course a very unusual way of behaving but it fits the unusual goal of becoming your own genie and making all your wishes come true. Unu
... See moreVadim Zeland • Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
this, we must learn to adapt ourselves to the environment into which fate has placed us and do our best to love the people with whom fate has surrounded us. We must learn to welcome whatever falls to our lot and persuade ourselves that whatever happens to us is for the best.
William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
(Henry Ward Beecher)
Instead, he believes it’s how we want that matters. Our well-being hinges on whether we grasp at our desires, doing anything to relieve the feeling, or whether we can instead coolly recognize our desires as they really are: little bubbles of impulse that perpetually form in our awareness, tickle us for a bit, then float away.
David Cain • Getting What We Want Isn’t What We Really Want
“Once the mind has accepted a plausible explanation for something, it becomes a framework for all the information that is perceived after it. We’re drawn, subconsciously, to fit and contort all the subsequent knowledge we receive into our framework, whether it fits or not. Psychologists call this “cognitive rigidity”. The facts that built an origin... See more