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“The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.”
― The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
― The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
“Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.”
― The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
― The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.”
― Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
― Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
“Your happiness is affected by 1) your outlook, that is, how you choose to view the events and circumstances of your everyday life; 2) specific actions with positive impact—things like writing down three things your grateful for, or sending appreciative emails, doing random acts of kindness, practicing forgiveness, meditating, and exercising; and 3) where you put your time and energy, and especially investing more time into important relationships and personally meaningful pursuits.”
― The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
― The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
“I'm convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I "should be" and what i am. My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my mind an expectation about how I or others should be. It is the tension between my desire to control the world and the recognition that I can't. "I will be what I will be" - where is the anxiety in that ? Anxiety is the recognition that I might not reach the rung on the opinion ladder I have just set for my self. I fear death most when I am about to exceed what I believe others think of me; then death threatens to cut me off from myself, because "myself" is not yet.”
― Notes to Myself
― Notes to Myself
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