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because the language is so simple, we accept Hemingway’s poetic enhancements as perfectly natural, perhaps the broken English of everyday Spaniards. In so doing, Hemingway endows his ordinary prose—and the ordinary people who speak it—with
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“You convince yourself that any given moment is representative of your life as a whole. Because we’re wired to believe that success is somewhere we get to—when goals are accomplished and things are completed—we’re constantly measuring our present moments by how “finished” they are, how good the story sounds, how someone else would judge the elevator speech. We find ourselves thinking: “Is this all there is?” because we forget that everything is transitory, and no one single instance can summarize the whole. There is nowhere to “arrive” to. The only thing you’re rushing toward is death. Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“A belief is what you know to be true because experience has made it evident to you. If you want to change your life, change your beliefs. If you want to change your beliefs, go out and have experiences that make them real to you. Not the opposite way around.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“Bad feelings should not always be interpreted as deterrents. They are also indicators that you are doing something frightening and worthwhile”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“So much of our inner turmoil is the result of conducting a life we don’t inherently desire, only because we have accepted an inner narrative of “normal” and “ideal” without ever realizing.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“So many people get caught up in allowing the past to define them or haunt them simply because they have not evolved to the place of seeing how the past did not prevent them from achieving the life they want, it facilitated it. This doesn’t mean to disregard or gloss over painful or traumatic events, but simply to be able to recall them with acceptance and to be able to place them in the storyline of your personal evolution.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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