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Yes. Large.
Worry gives small things a big shadow. ~ Swedish Proverb Credits: Image – Thank you madamescherzo. Quote – Thank you Sundoginthesky
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Rule #1
“Last year someone gave me a charming book by Roger Rosenblatt called ‘Ageing Gracefully’…I did not appreciate the title at the time but it contains a series of rules for ageing gracefully. The first...
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I don’t seem to get to that wonderful state by working harder and faster
“Folks, can we hear it for sloth, indolence, and procrastination?!” That’s how I have started many of my seminars over the years. And it always gets thunderous applause and raucous cheers. I think it...
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T.G.I.F.: How was your week? Like drinking from a fire hose.
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You think you have a memory; but it has you
“Your memory is a monster; you forget — it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you — and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you...
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Luck likes you best when you’re looking for it the least
“…Did you know they have performed studies? Tests? Surveys and scientific trials into the idea of luck, into the phenomenon of good fortune? Of course they have. They are trying to answer why some...
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I am King
A road, a mile of kingdom. I am king Of banks and stones and every blooming thing. — Patrick Kavanagh, “Inniskeen Road” Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. Regarded as one of...
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You are a fish on a line. Getting Unhooked.
“Sixteen thousand—that’s how many words we speak, on average, each day. So imagine how many unspoken ones course through our minds. Most of them are not facts but evaluations and judgments entwined...
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I leave the door unlocked. I leave the lights on.
Neil Hilborn, a poet with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), performs at the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam in Madison, Wisconsin. “The first time I saw her everything in my head went quiet. All the...
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I’ve never regretted anything so much
“I would like this to signal the end of “wasted angst” in my life: I’ve never regretted anything so much as having particular individual worries, in a certain sense anachronistic ones, whereas general...
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Thinking is my fighting.
“Thinking is my fighting.” Virginia Woolf, in her essay “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid,” dated 15 May 1940 via Call me Gabrielle. Image Credit: Yoginiology
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Driving. With my alcohol.
4:40 am. I’m rumbling down I-95. Dave Matthews is blaring through the speakers. And has been joining me on the morning ride all week. You’ve been off. Haven’t found your rhythm. It’s back. You’re...
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Now, to execute
Calm Down what happenshappens mostlywithout you. ~ Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888 – 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed...
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Like me. Like ME. LIKE ME DAMN IT.
Bruce Feiler: For the Love of Being ‘Liked’ – For Some Social-Media Users, an Anxiety From Approval Seeking: Walking through an airport newsstand this year, I noticed a novelty…I quickly snapped a...
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seeking calm
David Kanigan:“We can find peace or anxiety everywhere…The single most important move is acceptance. There is no need – on top of everything else – to be anxious that we are anxious. The mood is no...
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Sunday Sermon
I always have this sense that something is going to resolve my spiritual anxieties once and for all, that one day I’ll just relax and be a believer. I read book after book. I seek out intense...
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