To write grief onto a page of lined paper until tears blur the ink is often the surest access to giving or receiving forgiveness.
“The simplest thing is to think short-term, to live according to our reactions to the anarchic external impulses that affect us, letting ourselves be carried along; what is better, although more difficult to achieve, is to design one’s life with long-term objectives, so that, even if something turns us out of our path, we can reorient ourselves toward our goals.”
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
“I have no coherent thoughts, just a rush of feeling, like oversaturated, garish bursts of color.”
― Days of Distraction
― Days of Distraction
“Failures, and how one frames them, are the most decisive aspect of anyone’s trajectory in life.”
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
“However, no accumulation of things on its own can grant access to happiness, to an interior state of plenitude.”
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
“But true happiness is not in having, it is in being. Our way of being is the foundation of true happiness.”
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
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