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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
This quote, by Soren Kierkegaard, explains that life is best understood backwards–in hindsight. But the trouble is that we must live it forward. We must live it in that unsettling space that falls between a confounding present and an uncertain future. As such, we often don’t understand why things are…
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
This anonymous quote likely came about to encourage those who are literate to read more. However, the skill–reading–can be replaced with any other skill or talent. We’re all blessed with different talents, or there are certain skills we’ve developed over the years. Yet while being capable of talents and skills…
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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
A ship that’s always anchored to a harbor will have a lower chance of getting shipwrecked. But leaving it there means it will never fulfill its purpose–the reason for which it was built. While having a ship that never goes out to sea makes no sense, we’re sometimes like that…
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“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.”
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
