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“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor's Handbook

tags: giving, goals, goals-in-life, life, mortality, priorities

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“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing

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“We must learn to suffer whatever we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of dischords as well as different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only some of them, what could he sing? He has got to know how to use all of them and blend them together. So too must we with good and ill, which are of one substance with our life.”
― Michel de Montaigne

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“Compared to what we ought to be,” said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, “compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

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“Some people are content in the midst of deprivation and danger, while others are miserable despite having all the luck in the world. This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter. But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. Given this fact, it makes sense to train it.”
― Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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Misc Brahs — 211 members — last activity Nov 24, 2025 08:11PM
Members must be miscers: - Must be CEO'n 10K/day - Must not lift - Must bang 10/10s - Must be green - Must be aware 52 books in 52 weeks challenge - ...more

Mindful Reading Club — 190 members — last activity May 21, 2020 11:48AM
A group in Oxford, MS that reads works dealing with mindfulness, spirituality, meditation, and yoga.

The Brain and Mind — 4391 members — last activity Sep 25, 2025 01:42AM
This is a group for readers to recommend and discuss books related to real and/or artificial brains. Categories include but are not limited to: neuros ...more

LessWrong — 581 members — last activity Dec 18, 2016 12:38AM
Users of Less Wrong, a community blog dedicated to refining the art of human rationality.