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April 16 - April 16, 2020
“Anything you must have, owns you. When you release it, you get more of it.”
“Yeah. I’ve been thinking a lot about choices lately. How every single one we make links to the next choice. And together all those choices make what ends up being our lives.”
people who experience tremendous loss sometimes turn off their ability to feel. I’ve
“You believe in fate?” “I believe that we meet certain people in our lives when we’re meant to.”
“If I’m right, then why do we meet the people who bring us great pain?”
“Because we have vital things to learn even from those people,” she declares.
we are who we end up being because of each and every experience we’ve had. To pull one would unravel the entire masterpiece.”
Then I hope it is because I am wearing my life well instead of it wearing me.”
“I’m sure it looks like that from your point of view, but I live in reality, unfortunately.” “We all do. It’s just that our choices create our reality.”
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” ― Satchel Paige
Married didn’t mean dead. But it did mean committed.
“Because I own my choices. I decided at some point along the way not to care if another person doesn’t approve of my choice. I need to know that I think it’s the right choice.”
Books that make me think. Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl. How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie. And The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Michael Pollan. That one made me a vegetarian.”
“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese?”
“Or a bottle of wine.”
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
I have a beautiful woman on top of me, a woman I admired before I left Wall Street. A woman who built a business from the ground up and made it into something other people were willing to pay a lot of money for. But she’s not anything like I would have imagined her to be.
Trying to control life is like trying to hold water in your hands. There’s only so much that will fit in your palm. The rest is just going to leak out.”
the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty.
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
as investments go, I’d rather live in one than look at it on paper.”
“Working in a job you hate?” “I can’t say I hated it. But it owned me. I don’t want to be owned anymore.”
“It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.”
“Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.”
I have a hunger to experience things all but forgotten as a part of who I am. I used to be adventurous, curious about life and experiences.
“If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.” ― Nathan Phillips
“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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“One day someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.” ― Unknown
THE THING ABOUT second chances is knowing what to do with them if they’re given to you.
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
