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#1

“The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

tags: attention, awareness, self-care, self-control, self-criticism, stress, willpower

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#2

“The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

tags: attention, mindfulness, science, self-control, willpower

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#3

“When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#4

“A short practice that you do every day is better than a long practice you keep putting off to tomorrow.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#5

“when we’re stressed, our brains persistently mis-predict what will make us happy.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#6

“Students who were harder on themselves for procrastinating on their first exam were more likely to procrastinate on later exams than students who forgave themselves. The harder they were on themselves about procrastinating the first time, the longer they procrastinated for the next exam! Forgiveness—not guilt—helped them get back on track.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#7

“The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

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#8

“Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.”
― Kelly McGonigal

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#9

“Ask your brain to do math every day, and it gets better at math. Ask your brain to worry, and it gets better at worrying. Ask your brain to concentrate, and it gets better at concentrating. Not”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#10

“Simply put: Whenever we have conflicting desires, being good gives us permission to be a little bit bad.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#11

“[...]while we all have the capacity to do harder things, we also have the desire to do exactly the opposite.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

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#12

“Though our survival system doesn’t always work to our advantage, it is a mistake to think we should conquer the primitive self completely.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#13

“We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.”
― Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

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#14

“the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: eternity, heartbreak, indian-authors, love-quotes, loving, loving-someone, minutes, pain, poetry, poetry-quotes, sad-quotes, sadness, unrequited-love

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#15

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

tags: alone, appearance, beautiful, beauty, bukowski, classic, classics, loneliness, lonely, mirror, people, poem, poetry, reflection, self, self-esteem, soul, superficial, superficial-beauty, superficiality, ugly

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#16

“In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun

tags: arzum-uzun, arzum-uzun-quotes, arzum-uzun-sözleri, breaking-up, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearts, conflict, ego, egocentrism, egoism, egotistical, end-of-the-summer, heart-break, jokes, laughing, love, love-poems, love-quotes, making-jokes, poet, poetry-love, poetry-quotes, poets, relationship, relationships, smiling, summer

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#17

“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#18

“never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

tags: poetry, racism

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#19

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
― Umberto Eco

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#20

“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
― Ovid

tags: love, poetry, words

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#21

“If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours”
― James Jones, The Thin Red Line

tags: poetry

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#22

“Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart.”
― robert m drake

tags: happyquotes, hope, inspirational, inspirationalquotes, inspired, instadaily, instaquote, lovequotes, pinquotes, poems, poetry, quote, quoteoftheday, quotes, relationships, rmdrake, sadquotes, sayings, spokenword, tattoo, typewriter, vsco, writer, writing

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#23

“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: poetry

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#24

“So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.

from “Why Did I Dream of You Last Night?,”
― Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

tags: poetry

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#25

“I hate seeing poetry in everything I touch. I hate that I can no longer love you without turning you into a metaphor - that it can never be simple as looking at you and saying yes, yes, yes.”
― Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being

tags: romance

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#26

“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
― Albert Einstein

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