I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
— Diane Ackerman
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
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“There are too many mediocre things in life. Love should not be one of them”.— David to Frankie in the movie “Dream for an Insomniac”
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OH NO … this is not as simple a thought as you are nodding your head in agreement with right now! Let’s not stop our thoughts [...]
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“Too often, our lives cease working because we cease working at life, because we are unwilling to take responsibility for things as they are, and to work with our difficulties. … It is so much easier to find fault, to blame, to believe that what is needed is a change on the outside, an escape [...]
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
—Buckminster Fuller
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Think about the incredible change that occurs during metamorphosis … from crawling to flying .. from dull to spectacular … from fat & sluggish to light and airy. What metamorphosis can you go through? Nothing is too great a [...]
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(older lady) — “But are you happy? Are you really happy with your life, with your profession … right now?”
(younger man)— “Well, I AM working TOWARD that.”
— Chicago Hope (TV Show)
“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever think of the [...]
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“‘We don’t manage the business to maximize anything but the quality of the coffee’ … He wasn’t calculating how to maximize sales; he was providing people with something he believed they ought to enjoy. It was an approach to business and to selling that was as fresh and novel to me as the Starbucks coffee [...]
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“This morning I woke up and really wanted to have a soda and a pizza for breakfast … but I didn’t. It seemed more logical, more ‘normal’ to have toast and juice. I think that on my death-bed, I am really going to regret all that pizza that I didn’t eat.
On the other [...]
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“Often our inner struggles come from our tendency to jump on-board someone else’s problem, … then later, you feel stressed or resentful that you are behind schedule and that everyone seems to be making demands on you. Remembering that you don’t have to catch the ball is a very effective way to reduce the stress [...]
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“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storms terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Everything that I ever truly WANTED seemed risky in some way! And at times, I have chosen not to do what I wanted because of the perceived risk. I [...]
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What could you accomplish if you did it all for yourself? Don’t be selfish. Be self-full. Admit it. How hard would you work if it was all for yourself? How much fun would that work be? How would you and your life be different?
OK, now … How much fun [...]
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