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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer
In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found… Read more
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Make something to change your mind — acts that amplify.
Every act of making matters. How we make matters. I like to remember, and remark with regularity, that the word “making” occupies seventeen pages in the Oxford English Dictionary, so there are multiple possibilities for… Read more
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Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman Read more
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Humans, as anthropologists often point out, embrace magical thinking, or mystical explanations for things we do not understand; we need hope in a scary world.
Humans, as anthropologists often point out, embrace magical thinking, or mystical explanations for things we do not understand; we need hope in a scary world. We’re also pretty adept at ignoring things that might undermine… Read more
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Mindfulness requires, however, that we give up the fixed ways in which we’ve learned to look at the world
Mindfulness is an effortless, simple process that consists of drawing novel distinctions, that is, noticing new things. The more we notice, the more we become aware of how things change depending on the context and… Read more
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At the end of the day, all that matters is the work
In reply to a question about what advice he’d give to aspiring actors, Hoffman said, “This is something a teacher told me years ago, and he’s right: even if you’re auditioning for something that you… Read more
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One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”
There is no foolproof algorithm for life’s difficult choices. But the research shows that you can get better at making them. One important insight that has emerged from this research is the importance of generating… Read more
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And say simply, very simply, with hope , good morning
Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister’s eyes, into Your brother’s face, your country And say simply Very simply With… Read more
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Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.
THESE are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love… Read more
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To think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday.
The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see everyday. Erwin Schrödinger (1887 – 1961) https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1933/schrodinger/biographical/ Read more
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