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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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“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.”
It’s usually considered a faux pas to “reply all” to a group email if the reply isn’t relevant to the entire group. But if everyone in a group email represents a life challenge, you do want to select “reply all”. According to this quote, by Mike Gafka, that is key…
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“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
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“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.”
Consider your state of mind when you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or confused. Your focus suddenly becomes more limited to the one or several things causing that particular emotion. Everything else seems to disappear. However, this quote from a Beatles song by George Harrison, is about being able to notice things…
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
“When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.”
“An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere.”
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“When one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
There’s something about making up your mind about something that has a way of silencing excuses, doubts, and fear. All you see is action. This quote, by Rosa Parks, encapsulates this idea. The higher your resolve, the lower your excuses, doubts, and most of all, fear. For instance, let’s say…
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“Don’t bury your failures, let them inspire you.”
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
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“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
It’s physically impossible to leave a place and not find yourself in another. This quote, by screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard, is about applying this practical concept to life. Whether it’s leaving a room, a country, a relationship, or career, something else awaits on the other side of that exit.…
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“The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness, not to stop your progress.”
Fear is often regarded as one of those emotions we must do everything we can to suppress. And rightly so! However, as this quote by Steve Maraboli suggests, it’s not necessarily fear itself that should be a matter of concern. Instead, it’s the effect it has on us, which can…
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
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“If you`re doing your best, you won`t have any time to worry about failure.”
This quote, by H. Jackson Brown Jr., puts the fear of failure into perspective. The fact of the matter is that if you’re doing the best you can and fail, there really isn’t much more you can do or could have done. There’s only what you can do afterwards, which…
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“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
“Don’t start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every day is a fresh start. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life.”
“Let your past make you better, not bitter.”
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“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining nearby.”
Shadows tend to have an ominous connotation, especially in film where they might indicate that something frightful is about to appear on screen. But in order to produce the ominous shadow, there must be light not only present but nearby. This quote, by Ruth E. Renkel, reminds us of the…
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
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“Worry is like sand in an oyster. A little produces a pearl, too much kills the animal.”
Too much worry can be destabilizing and paralyzing. Not to mention, detrimental to our health. This is the level of worry that automatically comes to mind when we think about what worry means. We usually think of it at its extreme. However, this quote (author unclear) invites us to think…
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The “Life Maze”
There’s a big difference between the maze you see drawn on paper and a physical maze one, typically made out of hedges. Sometimes, when we’re not sure which way to go in life, it helps to imagine our life as a physical maze. This depiction reveals three important realities about…
