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#1

“The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best. ”
― don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

tags: advice

1244 likes

#2

“One of our signature flaws as a species: we will risk almost anything to avoid looking stupid.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

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#3

“We grow through discomfort or insight. But never through apathy.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms

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#4

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

tags: distance, equanimity, freedom, letting-go, perspective, self-centeredness

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#5

“The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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#6

“We shouldn’t do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms

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#7

“Adversity introduces us to ourselves.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

tags: adversity, self, self-realization

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#8

“You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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#9

“All the excuses in the world won't change one simple fact: that fear is a sign to do whatever it is you fear—and do it quickly.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

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#10

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

4715 likes

#11

“Life was not longer something to endure, but to live. ”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

tags: endurance, life

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#12

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

tags: art

520 likes

#13

“The most extraordinary people in the world do not have careers. What they have is a calling.”
― Vishen Lakhiani, The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed On Your Own Terms

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#14

“I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

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#15

“Why are we always looking for someone else to save us instead of trying to save ourselves?”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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#16

“You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

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#17

“Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

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#18

“People only see the present through the lenses of their personal pasts.”
― Max Brooks, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

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#19

“I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

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#20

“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

1084 likes

#21

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: happiness, rightness

2397 likes

#22

“If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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#23

“Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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#24

“I've always had a weakness for places where it seems like time slows down.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

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#25

“If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That's okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you're a fuckup”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

tags: determination, fucking-up, hard-work

121 likes

#26

“Sometimes life leaves a hundred-dollar bill on your dresser, and you don't realize until later it's because it fucked you.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

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#27