“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”
—Louis C.K.
August 2011
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“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say ‘no’ to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside. The enemy of the ‘best’ is often the ‘good.”
—Stephen Covey (via simplyisis)
“As far as I can see this world is too old for us to talk about with our new words.”
—Kerouac, Big Sur
“Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
—G.K. Chesterton
Instead of stuffing my face, I’m trying to slow down and chew each bite 40 times—this article says that it’s the magic number to consume about 12% fewer calories per meal, leading to weight loss. I’m also curious about what it does for digestion; I would assume it has to ease the process.
It’s more difficult than I expected, but it’s helping me bring mindfulness to my eating.
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
—Anaïs Nin (via lucifelle)
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”
—Dr. Wayne Dyer (via simplyisis)
“Upon awakening, decide to do something—anything—that will improve the quality of life for someone, without seeking any credit for yourself.”
—Dr. Wayne Dyer (via simplyisis)
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you’re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?”
—Margaret Atwood (via atomos)
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
—Nietzsche
“When parents die, something very deep-rooted dies within you. When parents die, for the first time you feel alone, uprooted. So while they are alive, do everything that you can so that an understanding can arise and you can communicate with them and they can communicate with you. Then things settle and the accounts are closed. Then when they leave the world — and they will leave someday — you will not feel guilty, you will not repent; you will know that things have settled. They have been happy with you; you have been happy with them.”
—Osho (via journeytoenlightenment)
“All the bad days have two things in common: you know the right thing to do, but you let someone talk you out of it.”
—Tom Bihn
