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“Love is reflected in your daily choices. When you choose crappy food for lunch, that isn’t loving. Neither is choosing work over sleep or anger over gratitude. They are all choices. Not easy ones, but choices nonetheless.”
― Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More
― Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More
“The only way to live meaningfully is to forge new connections. As much as we want what we had in our past, we can only experience the present. Rigley was a great dog. I loved him so much. But the only way I can experience the joy he and I shared is to bond with a new dog. New connections don’t erase the past. They allow us to appreciate it. I finally understand that.”
― The Intangible
― The Intangible
“In each loss there is a gain, As in every gain there is a loss, And with each ending comes a new beginning. —Buddhist Proverb”
― This Is Not How It Ends
― This Is Not How It Ends
“We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”
― Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More
― Soulful Simplicity: How Living With Less Can Lead to So Much More
“Emmett wasn’t one for circuses. He wasn’t one for magic shows or rodeos. He hadn’t even liked going to the football games at his high school, which were attended by nearly everyone in town. He’d simply never taken to the idea of sitting in a crowd to watch someone do something more interesting than what you were doing yourself.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
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