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“the key to establishing your new habit is to stop obsessing over the results you want and instead start obsessing over showing up every day.”
― Patrik Edblad, The Habit Blueprint: 15 Simple Steps to Transform Your Life

“The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain times, and then I work to figure out for myself if what he is telling me is the truth or not, and sometimes I can figure out that it’s not the truth and sometimes I don’t know and never know, and sometimes just because he says it to me over and over again I am convinced it is the truth because I don’t believe he would repeat a lie so often. Maybe the truth does not matter, but I want to know it if only so that I can come to some conclusions about such questions as: whether he is angry at me or not; if he is, then how angry; whether he still loves her or not; if he does, then how much; whether he loves me or not; how much; how capable he is of deceiving me in the act and after the act in the telling.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

“She reads a book about Zen and she writes down on a piece of paper the eight parts of Buddha’s eightfold path and thinks she might follow it. She sees that it mainly involves doing everything right.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

“alcoholic if necessary,”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

“She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread