Nearly everything awesome takes longer than you think.

Get started and don’t worry about the clock.

— James Clear

https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1536728987564593160

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One can never be alone enough to write. To see better.

— Susan Sontag
https://www.themarginalian.org/index.php/2012/07/25/susan-sontag-on-writing/

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“Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you.
Know your worth even if they don’t.”

— Thema Davis

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“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

https://thoughtkick.com/post/686041864552448000

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“Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Unknown

https://thoughtkick.com/post/677975584964542464

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“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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