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When I was a monk, as you might imagine, we did a lot of self-reflection, and at one point my teacher asked a group of us to rate how much we were struggling with our minds on a scale of one to ten. Our work was intense, and we all gave
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“Someone who receives the girlfriend experience gets to avoid the emotional duty, compromise, and general responsibility of a relationship …”
― Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
― Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
“One trick George and I have implemented to deflate any escalating argument is having a safe word or phrase to instantly add some levity. For us, it’s “simple as this.” It’s a ridiculous line from an adult film—that we never watched, I swear!—”
― Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
― Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
“The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. The outcome becomes expected. And as our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty. Perhaps this is why we get caught up in a never-ending cycle, jumping from one workout to the next, one diet to the next, one business idea to the next.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
“Research shows that play is the mental state in which we learn best, and that play is essential for our mental health. When you attempt a new and challenging activity together in a space where success doesn’t matter, you can both let go and learn.”
― 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
― 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
“When you break up with someone, you invite the possibility of both of you becoming entirely new people. And it’s because you’ve seen different things, met different people, and felt different things. Even if you haven’t fallen in love or dated a new person, you will have grown in ways you could never imagine or maybe haven’t considered. Your professional outlook has changed. You’ve watched new shows and listened to new music. You’ve both faced different adversaries and come out with new perspectives. Even if you think you’ll always be the same person with the same feelings, I promise you that you won’t.”
― Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
― Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love
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Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
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