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Shekar Mahalingam, an entrepreneur studying psychology, writes in his essay “The Joy of Writing,” how penning a letter “seemed a drudgery done with a lifeless ballpoint pen” or, even more to the point, “bereft of joy.” How he longed “for
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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
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