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Laurie Dewberry
http://dewberryfamily.blogspot.com
“The wise are who they are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.”
― The Tao of Pooh
― The Tao of Pooh
“Knowledge and cleverness tend to concern themselves with the wrong sorts of things, and a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends to go chasing after things that don't matter, or that don't even exists, instead of seeing, appreciating, and making use of what is fit in front of it.”
― The Tao of Pooh
― The Tao of Pooh
“Essentialists see trade-offs as an inherent part of life, not as an inherently negative part of life. Instead of asking, “What do I have to give up?” they ask, “What do I want to go big on?”
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
― Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
“No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.”
― The Tao of Pooh
― The Tao of Pooh
“A way of life that keeps saying, "Around the next corner, above the next step," works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good that only a few get to where they would naturally have been in the first place-happy and good- and the rest give up and fall by the side of the road, cursing the world, which is not to blame but which is there to help show the way.”
― The Tao of Pooh
― The Tao of Pooh
Laurie’s 2025 Year in Books
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