"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Agnes Repplier
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Tina Fey
"If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes."
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* This article was originally published here
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Harriet Lerner
"Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Harold Bloom
"We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Ed Norton
"Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition."
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* This article was originally published here
Liz Friedman
"If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Victor Hugo
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away."
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* This article was originally published here
Ellen Glasgow
"Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty."
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* This article was originally published here
Elizabeth Taylor
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Wally Lamb
"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
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* This article was originally published here
One Thing You Must Do Every Day
One Thing You Must Do Every Day.
I have a question for you.
What is your ONE most important activity?
What is the ONE core activity that makes everything else fine?
What is the ONE core activity that if you don’t do causes everything to fall apart?
Many people focus on anything but the most critical activity in their life. They are usually surprised when things fall apart.
Is it showing up for work on time or doing a great job at work?
Could it be your unflinching attention to your family?
Does your business have ONE activity that causes people to buy from you?
When you focus on your ONE most important activity - everything else will take care of itself.
* This article was originally published here
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Plato
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
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* This article was originally published here
Barbara Hall
"Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace."
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* This article was originally published here
Erica Eisdorfer
"I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Monday, January 27, 2020
Turn Obstacles Into Opportunity
Turn Obstacles Into Opportunity
Have you ever wondered how much easier things would be if you didn’t have to think so much?
What if the future or your past didn’t matter?
Imagine if you didn’t worry about the possessions, success, or drama of others?
What would happen if you believed that YOU are in control?
Now you are starting to think like a Stoic Philosopher.
Stoicism is about paring down and simplifying. They eliminate unproductive traits that define the majority of the population. One of the most common is by turning obstacles upside down, creating opportunities, and seeing them as teachable moments.
For a Stoic, every bad thing becomes a new source of good.
Marcus Aurelius said it this way,
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in your way becomes the way.”
* This article was originally published here
Jonathan Kozol
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
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* This article was originally published here
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."
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* This article was originally published here
Ann Landers
"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Sunday, January 26, 2020
John Viscount Morley
"It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Marilyn vos Savant
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
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* This article was originally published here
Sarah Bernhardt
"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Ann Richards
"The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense."
* This article was originally published here
* This article was originally published here
Saturday, January 25, 2020
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