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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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As I make hundreds of small choices throughout the day, I’m building a life—but at one and the same time, I’m closing off the possibility of countless others, forever. (The original Latin word for “decide,” decidere, means “to cut off,” as ...more

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“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation

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“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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“Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”
― Lou Holtz

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“Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

tags: love

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