Paper Tigers, Ernest & Me

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Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out.

Charles Bukowski

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May I be safe. May I be happy. May I be strong. May I live with ease.

Dani Shapiro

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Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.

Yasmin Mogahed

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When people talk, listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.

Ernest Hemingway

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It’s a rather simple question that quickly gets to the core of someone’s sense of well-being and legitimacy: did your childhood leave you feeling that you were – on balance – OK as you were? Or did you somewhere along the way derive an impression that you needed to be extraordinary in order to deserve a place on the earth?

Overcoming the Need to Be Exceptional

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At the bookstore, there are tens of thousands of books, each competing to find a reader. The thing is, books are impossible to sell when there aren’t a lot of books around. They don’t sell many books at Macy’s. The biggest competitor most marketers face is 'none.' Inaction always has the biggest market share of all. The surprising solution is to be surrounded by competition. Because that changes the question from, 'if?' to 'which?'

Seth Godin

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If I dismiss the ordinary — waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen — I may just miss my life.

Dani Shapiro

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By intentionally choosing to feel the elevated emotions of the heart rather than waiting for something outside of yourself to elicit those emotions, you become who you are truly meant to be—a heart-empowered individual.

Joe Dispenza

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There’s a common safe place: Being busy. We’re supposed to give you a pass because you were full on, all day. Frantically moving from one thing to the other, never pausing to catch your breath, and now you’re exhausted. No points for busy. Points for successful prioritization. Points for efficiency and productivity. Points for doing work that matters. No points for busy.

Seth Godin

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Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.

Warsawn Shire

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Awaken the stillness within you.

Asad Meah

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What if, for a whole year, you stopped acquiring new things or taking on new pursuits. Instead, you return to abandoned projects, stalled hobbies, unread books and other neglected intentions, and go deeper with them than you ever have before.

Depth year via Swissmiss

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Action comes from tension, desire and fear.

Seth Godin