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“a different result requires doing something different.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.” —Robert Brault”
― Gary Keller, The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today. Do not do more this week than you can completely recover from this week.”
― Greg McKeown, Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head."
But I am in my head, Sam thought.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“There's no game without the NPCs. There's just some bullshit hero, wandering around with no one to talk to and nothing to do.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as warbled to the string,
Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek,
And made Hell grant what Love did seek.”
― John Milton, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

“There was no man in the world who would claim such a thing; only women were taught their pain was never enough.”
― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Gods