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“My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.”
― Mary Roach

“Ask yourself: What would the self-talk of a champion be like as he prepared for competition?   How would that champion be moving his body around as he prepared?   And how would that champion be breathing as he prepared to enter the competition and face his opponent?   Then do it.  Bring it all together for several minutes prior to your time, and allow yourself to enter into this totally prepared and empowered state before you compete.  Get out of your own way.  Let your training take over.”
― D.C. Gonzalez, The Art of Mental Training - A Guide to Performance Excellence

“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”
― Margaret Mitchell