“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”

— Mahmdou Darwish

https://thoughtkick.com/post/677933953046446080

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That’s why the philosophers warn us not to be satisfied with mere learning, but to add practice and then training.

For as time passes we forget what we learned and end up doing the opposite, and hold opinions the opposite of what we should.

— Epictetus, Discourses

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“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

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“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

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“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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