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Joyosity: How to Cultivate Intense Happiness in Work & Life (Even If Things Are What They Are)

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“Maybe he showed up because I needed him, not just for play, but to shield me from another voice entirely. Maybe Colonel O'Truth was a product of protection from the terrifying God I encountered at the Catholic church in the form of statues and crucifixes, or the stories my grandmother and mother were always telling me about how He was going to punish me if I misbehaved. Regardless of where he came from, the Colonel was a comforting voice.”
― John S. Johnson, Breaking Building Belonging: Why the Voices We Follow Matter

tags: catholicism, faith, fear, inner-voice, protection, psychology

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“This duet was my soundtrack. What my grandmother would call a ‘poor pearl’ mindset—always careful to overly dramatize the phrase and make ‘poor’ sound more like ‘paw’ before drawing out the ‘purl’ in her trademark Brooklyn/Italian drawl. Somewhere, Sergeant Stunod was rubbing his hands together, maniacally watching me slip into his shadow world. He could taste victory with each ‘poor purl’ I added to the string I was tripping over.
— Chapter One: Mosquitos | Miseries | Mindsets, p. 18”
― John S. Johnson, Breaking Building Belonging: Why the Voices We Follow Matter

tags: grandmother, inner-voice, mindset, psychology, resilience, self-pity

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John’s Quotes

“I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

tags: growing-older

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“Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.”
― Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

tags: adult, child, childhood, growing-older, growing-up, man, painted-shell, youth

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“Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale.”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

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“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: growing-older, life-lessons, time-passing, wisdom

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“Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.”
― Erwin McManus

tags: culture, storytelling

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