“If we don’t discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.”
— William Feather
(via a Newsfeed Eradicator block quote)
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
— Maya Angelou
https://thoughtkick.com/post/684094168021270528/we-delight-in-the-beauty-of-the-butterfly-but
#Quote #mjbQuote #mjbDoTheWork #Perseverance #Life #iCanChange
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
— Haruki Murakami
https://thoughtkick.com/post/683913096869412864
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“Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me.
But right now, I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.”
— Unknown
#mjbQuote #Quote #Love #Loss # Life #mjbTOP
“If you haven’t read hundreds of books,” the soldier-philosopher General James Mattis says, “you’re functionally illiterate.”
via, https://ryanholiday.net/13-reading-strategies/
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“Your now is not your forever.”
— John Green, Turtles All The Way Down
https://thoughtkick.com/post/680498083102130176
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90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
— Shane Parrish
https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish/status/1521874685973221378
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The shortcut is doing the hard thing you don’t want to do.
The longer you delay, the longer the path.
— Shane Parrish
https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish/status/1325626764027174914
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Practice even what you think you can’t do, and you might find that you have more capacity than you considered possible. — Ryan Holiday
https://twitter.com/RyanHoliday/status/1514386223535636486
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Nothing ever ends poetically.
It ends and we turn it into poetry.
All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.
— Kait Rokowski
https://twitter.com/GetWiser/status/1521000526577643520
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