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Carl Jung once wrote that it is not
“You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Distilling what I learned, I came up with a kind of ultrasimple coda: Go outside, often, sometimes in wild places. Bring friends or not. Breathe.”
― The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
― The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
“Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Death is essential to making life possible. Death is transformation. Death is continuation. When we die, something else is born, even if it takes time to reveal itself or for us to be able to recognize it.”
― The Art of Living: A Guide to Mindfulness, Personal Growth, and Peace with Transformative Meditations for Understanding Life's Deepest Questions and Experiencing Happiness and Freedom
― The Art of Living: A Guide to Mindfulness, Personal Growth, and Peace with Transformative Meditations for Understanding Life's Deepest Questions and Experiencing Happiness and Freedom
“Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a part in their immortality.”
― The Art Of Living
― The Art Of Living
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