Decisions matter when they’re acted on. Thinking matters when it’s turned into action. When it’s just you, turning decisions into action is easy. You decide what to do and act. Easy. When you’re part of a group, it’s more difficult. More
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“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
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“We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. As the gods intended, we are here to become more and more ourselves.”
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
― What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
“The capacity for growth depends on one’s ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.”
― The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
― The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
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