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Keeping good thoughts

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“Minus the bullshit, life's great”

- Young Jeezy

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“Things that make our lives richer often make them harder.”

- Gretchen Rubin

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"Let’s connect, because it’s worth the effort. Let’s gather people around our tables, not because it’s effortless, but because it’s worth the effort. Let’s practice analog connection in big and small ways because it’s worth the effort—because all the best things are."

Shauna Niequist

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"Contemplate the price you pay for inaction."

Chris Williamson

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“Maya Angelou begged us: When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time. And I find that it generally takes me a total of ten showings to believe.” - Holly Whitaker

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"Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state." Via James Clear

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"My favorite type of mental toughness is not forcing one path, but being open to many paths: Whatever comes my way, I can handle it. Whatever resources I have, I can make it work. Whatever the day brings, I can thrive." - James Clear

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Not loving someone who didn’t love me turned out to be one of the easiest things I’ve ever done. It’s akin to having a cinderblock on one’s foot: it’s painful and then you realize that all you have to do is remove the cinderblock. And once the cinderblock is gone, you get all the feeling back in your toes. - Laura Lippman

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"Don't be so worried if you're afraid. It's like, okay, I feel it. It's like, that's fine. Just keep working through it. I don't just sit there and worry about it. I just start doing it. Fear isn't a roadblock — it's just the unknown. The fear you feel is the unknown. It's what you don't know." Tom Cruise

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"If you respect beauty, you've nourished your soul."

Jule Campbell

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"I still remember seeing the Spice Girls play at Wembley as a tween, circa 1998. They were at the peak of their powers, and yet there was no talk of kidneys being sold in order to afford the entry price."

Helen Coffey

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"The simile is a rhetorical magic trick, like a pun pulled out of a hat. A metaphor, however, feels not clever but true. Take away the announcement of like, and we read and write on a much less sophisticated level, on a level that has been called primitive, because it recalls the staggering ancient power of words as curses, as spells to transform someone into a frog, a stag, a satanic serpent."

Max Byrd

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“I been drownin' out the bad thoughts in my mind

I've been looking for a home that I just can't find

And the devil's always sparklin' in the light

And it shines into my face until I'm blind”

Golden Crystal Kingdom, Vincent Neil Emerson

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"And now my biggest fear is not the dying

My biggest fear is that I'll stop trying."

Bill Callahan

The Man I'm Supposed To Be

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“I am rooted but I flow.”

- Virginia Woolf

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Agnes: "I can't really imagine myself old."

Shop guy: (scoffs)"You think I imagined myself like this? No, believe it or not, I did not think I would end up looking like a yam with a mouth on it. But, here we are. It'll happen to you. You won't know what hit you."

Sorry Baby

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“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

- Nora Ephron