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#1

“I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#1

“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origins and the great distance we’ve traveled since. Ditto for the dreams of a separate but noble past. Cosby’s, and much of black America’s, conservative analysis flattens history and smooths over the wrinkles that have characterized black America since its inception.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

tags: black-history, culture, political-philosophy, race-and-racism-in-america

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#2

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: humour, sleep, waking-up

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#3

“You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#4

“I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame, or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat. I want to see you guys high-five each other like teammates on a recreational softball team you both do for fun.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: marriage

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#5

“We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#6

“In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#7

“Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#8

“I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anywhere. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: commitment, men, relationships, the-office

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#9

“I'm not talking about commitment to romantic relationships. I'm talking about commitment to things: houses, jobs, neighborhoods. Having a job that requires a contract. Paying a mortgage. I think when men hear that women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

tags: commitment, men-versus-boys

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#10

“The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

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#11

“It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: bad-news, truths

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#12

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

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#13

“More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

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#14

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: priorities

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#15

“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
― Stephen R. Covey

tags: priorities

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#16

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: inspirational, motivation, priorities, simplicity, wisdom

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#17

“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law

tags: greatness, leadership, priorities

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#18

“A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

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#19

“The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

tags: priorities

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#20

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: priorities

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#21

“The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.”
― David F. Jakielo

tags: life-purpose, priorities

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#22

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: ambition, business, calling, career, commitment, determination, dreams, entrepreneur, faith, genius, hobbies, insanity, living, passion, patience, peace, perfection, perfectionist, perseverance, persistence, power, priorities, risk, sanity, strategy, strength, success

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#23

“There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.”
― Dennis Lehane

tags: priorities, public-opinion, self-esteem

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#24

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
― Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

tags: life-lessons, life-philosophy, priorities, working

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#25

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
― Stephen R. Covey

tags: priorities

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#26

“The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.”
― James Emery White

tags: priorities, reading, time

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#27

“When you know who you are, you know what to do.”
― Shelley Hendrix, Why Can't We Just Get Along?: 6 Effective Skills for Dealing with Difficult People

tags: balance, focus, identity, identity-in-christ, peace, priorities, purpose

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#28

“May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.”
― Traci LaRussa

tags: beauty, christ, christian, encouragement, faith, focus, hope, inspiration, life, priorities, quote, truth, value

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#29

“I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.”
― E.F. Schumacherm

tags: comfort, contempt, priorities

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