#better yrself

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton, A First Word.

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Look to it that what you are doing is not merely toddling to a competency.

J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1921.

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We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.

Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow.

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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother.

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Fight for more good days than bad Fight for the life you told your younger self you’d have

Proper -  I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better

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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

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I bought a white chocolate tea in the park on my lunchbreak. I bought a painting off the street of a haunted lake. I tried hard to make my world an exciting place. But I keep hearing talk of the doom, and they're sending the meek home. And that's not half as bad as the shadow that's caught in the hollow of your cheekbone.

--The Child Ballads, Cheekbone Hollows.

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There is loads of great music out there that you’ll never have time to find out about. I’m always saying this - boring the arse off someone about this. Partly to make me sound like I know loads of great music that they don’t, and partly to justify why I’ve never heard a note of, say, the Stooges... There’s something exciting about coming to musicians when they’re just names, when you’ve no idea who Derrick Harriott looks like, or what his reputation is - considered naff by real dub fans, maybe ? Derivative ? Or maybe ground-breaking ? I know the Stooges were ground-breaking - maybe that’s what has been putting me off. The weight of knowing already how good it’s meant to be.

Jonny Greenwood