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#271

“We tell our children to believe in themselves, without explaining how to develop that belief. We鈥檝e fallen for the Instagram version of confidence, emphasizing the projection of belief, instead of working on the substance underneath. We need a new approach to building confidence, one focused on the inside.”
― Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

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#272

“Once we become aware of the fact that we are only feeling what we're thinking and that thinking is the root cause of our unpleasant experience, we see it for what it truly is. Then we allow it to settle by giving it space, and slowly we will see how we begin to have a clear mind again.”
― Joseph Nguyen, Don't Believe Everything You Think

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#273

“We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

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#274

“If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. 鈥� If you follow in another鈥檚 footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. 鈥� Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. 鈥� Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives”
― Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

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#275

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

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#276

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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#277

“The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”
― Michelangelo

tags: architecture, art

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#278

“Some people are born into families that encourage education; others are against it. Some are born into flourishing economies encouraging of entrepreneurship; others are born into war and destitution. I want you to be successful, and I want you to earn it. But realize that not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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#279

“Use money to gain control over your time, because not having control of your time is such a powerful and universal drag on happiness. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want to, pays the highest dividend that exists in finance.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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#280

“Be nicer and less flashy. No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are. You might think you want a fancy car or a nice watch. But what you probably want is respect and admiration. And you鈥檙e more likely to gain those things through kindness and humility than horsepower and chrome.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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#281

“If you鈥檙e not failing, you鈥檙e not pushing your limits, and if you鈥檙e not pushing your limits, you鈥檙e not maximizing your potential”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

226 likes

#282

“When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.”
― David Richo

tags: daring-to-trust, david-richo, inspiration, nonfiction, shambhala

55 likes

#283

“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”
― Pema Chodron

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#284

“Taking in the good is not about putting a happy shiny face on everything, nor is it about turning away from the hard things in life. It's about nourishing well-being, contentment, and peace inside that are refuges you can always come from and return to.”
― Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

tags: mindfulness, neuroscience

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#285

“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.”
― Jack Kornfield

146 likes

#286

“Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means 'to suffer with,' which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

tags: compassion

51 likes

#287

“It is the same with people. Not every person you meet in life will become a close friend or lover. Some you will find hard to get along with or impossible to like. But these people, too, teach you the precious lesson of who you do like, so that you will appreciate those.”
― Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

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#288

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

tags: books, empathy, pain, reading

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#289

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver

tags: misattributed-buddha, tolerance, understanding

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#290

“Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: altruism, empathy, helping, human-nature, life-lesson, life-lessons

639 likes

#291

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge鈥� is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another鈥檚 world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
― Bill Bullard

tags: accountability, ego, empathy, inspirational, knowledge, opinion

587 likes

#292

“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
― Nora Roberts, Midnight Bayou

tags: empathy, passion, stoicism

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#293

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
― Les Brown

tags: accountability, les-brown, life-lessons

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#294

“If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

tags: acceptance, accountability, despair, faith, resilience, suffering

65 likes

#295

“If you think someone or something other than yourself is responsible for your happiness or success, I'd guess you're not that happy or successful.”
― Rob Liano

tags: accountability, success

56 likes

#296

“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.”
― Alaric Hutchinson

tags: acceptance, accountability, avoidance, bravery, compassion, conflict-resolution, consciousness, courage, giving, growth, inner-peace, inspirational, listening, love, pain, peace, peace-of-mind, peace-on-earth, present-moment, psychology, relationships, showing-up, spiritual, uncomfortable, wisdom, words-of-wisdom, words-to-live-by, zen

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#297

“The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability.”
― David McCullough, Brave Companions: Portraits in History

tags: accountability, morality, technology

14 likes

#298

“Your first investment should be in yourself. Learn new skills. The market can go up or down but you鈥檒l never lose your skills. This is more true today than ever before. Diversify your skills.”
― Salil Jha

tags: agile, career, diversify, growth, investment, jobless, leadership, manager, self-development, skills

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#299

“Great ideas don鈥檛 die in the market, they die in the shower. People are too scared to pursue them because they appear crazy.”
― Kaihan Krippendorff

tags: agile, business, future, growth, innovation, keynote-speaker, leadership, strategy, technology, transformation

10 likes

#300

“look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are - Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life

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