“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
— Tahereh Mafi
https://thoughtkick.com/post/687122106638598144
#Quote #mjbQuote #Wisdom #Stories #Life
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
#Quote #mjbQuote #SelfWorth
“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
#Quote #mjbQuote #Intention #mjbDoTheWork
“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”
— Mahmdou Darwish
https://thoughtkick.com/post/677933953046446080
#Quote #mjbQuote #Life #Love #mjbTOP
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
#Quote #mjbQuote #mjbDoTheWork #Perseverance #Life #iCanChange