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June 4 - September 13, 2018
It’s kind of like those unlabeled cookies wrapped in Saran Wrap at the counter of the gas station. Who makes those things?
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Emerson
You ever hear the cliché, “If you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life”? It’s bullshit.
only three states of mind anyone should tolerate: acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm.
Your body is your slave; it works for you.
If strength is when force acts against resistance to create movement, then power is the rate (or speed) at which that force is enacted to create the movement.
Because there is no destination in a well-lived life, there is only the journey.
You are a human being, not a human doing.
1. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. This sentiment came from every single male patient she cared for. Every single one.
Sex Ed should be called Sex Dead, since really it’s just a mechanism for adults to convince children that if they have sex outside of marriage or love, there is a 100 percent chance either they or their dreams will die.
Hedonic tolerance happens with everything—sex, drugs, food, extreme sports.
Every single peak performer I work with visualizes his or her success.
They are all looking for some sign that somebody knows what the hell is going on out there and that something better is possible. You can be that sign, that someone, that something better.
