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Look at that tattoo. Was that really because you wanted to cherish a memory, or did you want to be seen to be cherishing that memory?
See how light you feel without them?
The survival of their ego depends on comparing it with yours.
when you’re less, they become more.
The second reason trying to get others’ approval will always fail is because they won’t be approving of you.
It’ll make the victory feel empty and make you feel that the real you isn’t worthy.
He was never apologetic about following his own rhythm.
instead of pretending to be something he wasn’t in order to please everyone, it would be easier to find those who liked the type of person he really was.
“what you see is what you get.”
They were all drawn in by the light of his genuine pure self shining through.
Be yourself no matter what they say.
Love who you are. The real you is wonderful and calm,
You are all you’ll ever need—and all you will ever have.
It begins when you believe that you are the center of the universe, that good things happen because you’ve earned them and bad things happen just to annoy you.
fortunate to have so many supporting actors in my life.
I must be destined for greatness.
Your movie is just one of many entangled movies.
You live in a complex web of connections. Every single day, every step you take and every move you make impacts—even if in small ways—the life of everyone around you
good is never all good, and bad is never all bad.
one man’s loss is another man’s fortune.
Everything is both good and bad. Or perhaps everything is neither.
You are one of more than 7,200,000,000 people.
Look at the night sky and remember that its beauty resides in its billions of sparkling stars. Of those billions, you are but one.
The Depth of Knowledge What matters most isn’t what you know, but how accurate your knowledge is.
DDAA: Discovery, Debate, Acceptance, Arrogance.
my eagerness to learn overpowered my ego’s desire to be right.
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
Be an explorer, a seeker of the truth, always ready to admit being wrong in order to continue the quest.
The world was pushing her away from an ordinary life to greatness.
she described that period of her life as liberating, allowing her to focus on writing.
Life, with all its might, blocked every other path, leaving her only one, and she followed it.
Sometimes when you stray off your track, life nudges you hard . . . and that’s not bad!
You truly never know for sure.
How many of the worst things that you’ve faced turned out, in time, to be the best things that ever happened to you?
realize that your expectations are sometimes rushed and that life can surprise you by eventually coming around to work in your favor.
Every moment of your life is neither all good nor all bad.
Shakespeare wisely said is true: “Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“leap second” into Coordinated Universal Time every four years
Over the past few centuries, time evolved to become the taskmaster of modern culture.
Time is woven into every plan and every action.
It gives us peace of mind that everything is under control and that we’ll be just fine.
Our need for security and control is instinctive.
these events left turns because they point us down a road we weren’t expecting to take.
Swans and Butterflies In his New York Times bestseller, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb demonstrates that rare and improbable events occur much more often than we dare to think.
Edward Lorenz called “the Butterfly Effect,” the ability of seemingly minor and unrelated events to cause major changes.
speculation that the flapping of the wings of a butterfly in Brazil can cause a hurricane in Florida.
Trillions of butterfly effects are buffeting us every minute. They alter our paths more than we can imagine.
