the Grit Scale—a test that, when taken honestly, measures the extent to which you approach life with grit.
“what you pay attention to will define, for you, what reality is.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
“But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.”
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“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“The snail was on the wing and the lark on the thorn - or, rather, the other way around - and God was in His heaven and all right with the world.
And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep, which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care, poured over me in a healing wave.”
― The Code of the Woosters
And presently the eyes closed, the muscles relaxed, the breathing became soft and regular, and sleep, which does something which has slipped my mind to the something sleeve of care, poured over me in a healing wave.”
― The Code of the Woosters
“Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
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