“When people don’t learn from mistakes, their mistakes often turn into bad habits.”
― Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
― Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Tolstoy described boredom as “a desire for desires,” while the working-class Chekhov wrote about it primarily as a desire for escape.”
― Yawn: Adventures in Boredom
― Yawn: Adventures in Boredom
“Awareness, Acceptance, Alternatives, and Actions are the four habits necessary to become Type Me.”
― From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
― From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It
“Our lifestyle, our life, the way we think and do things, really is a practice; a daily practice.”
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“Create daily habits that will create a higher quality of life. Remember, our lives become whatever we practice.”
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50 books to read before you die
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These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Gra ...more
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