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    “Rest doesn’t mean doing nothing. It means lying fallow, and that means restoring the nutrition you’ve lost. It’s about building yourself up. Reculer means retreating so you can advance. And retreating carries with it all the implications of a religious retreat—a way to spend energy to get more energy.”

    Mira Kirshenbaum, The Gift of a Year (Page 88)

    Eckhart Tolle Quote on Understanding Who You Are and How You Might Best Influence Others

      “Who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.”

      Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 202)

      Beyond the Quote (257/365)

      But, isn’t what we say and what we do, who we are? Sure, our words and actions are key indicators of our identity, but what Tolle points out as being even more important is the intention behind the words and actions. It’s in how we say what we say and in how we do what we do that makes all of the difference. This is a crucial understanding because therefore, it’s the how that points us to understanding who we are.

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      Quote On Inner Beauty and Questioning How People Would Treat You If They Were All Blind

        “If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?”

        Unknown

        Beyond the Quote (256/365)

        As it stands, the world is predominantly vision based. Meaning, most of what we interpret from our worlds—our environments—is absorbed from what we see. Less of what we learn is from hearing and less from that is tasting, smelling, and feeling. And because most of us rely on vision, vision becomes the predominant method for hierarchically organizing our world. In other words, we organize our world into “desirable” and “less desirable” based on what we see more than any other sense, because sight is our primary source of information gathering.

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        Quote from Modern Love About Recalibrating the Universe When Anything Bad Happens

          “Whenever anything bad happens, you should try and recalibrate the universe or whatever you want to call it with its opposite.“

          Yasmine, Modern Love

          Beyond the Quote (255/365)

          Spoilers ahead. In the final episode of Modern Love, Season 1, we are shown a scene of a young man, Rob, who gets stood up at a café. Disheartened and upset, he goes to leave the café and (appropriately enough) walks out into the rain. He slowly pulls back to shield under the café’s awning as an attractive blond women, Yasmine, runs to shield on the other side.

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            “You could try to pound your head against the wall and think of original ideas or you can cheat by reading them in books.”

            Patrick Collison

              “The key—if you want to build habits that last—is to join a group where the desired behavior is the normal behavior.”

              James Clear, Blog

                “It’s better to do less than you hoped than nothing at all. No zero days.”

                James Clear, Blog

                  “Build before you have to. Build knowledge before you have to. Build strength before you have to. Build an emergency fund before you have to. Let internal pressure drive you today, so you can handle external pressure tomorrow.”

                  James Clear, Blog

                    “If you can find love in a supermarket early in the morning, you know you can trust it.”

                    Lexi, Modern Love

                    Save Yourself. Because Even The Best Doctors, Teachers, Gurus, Mentors, and Trainers Can’t

                      Save Yourself.

                      Excerpt: Inspired by a quote from Naval Ravikant, this post is about taking responsibility for your own life and depending less on others to do the “saving” for you. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Teachers won’t make you smart. Mentors won’t make you rich. It’s all up to YOU. Save yourself.

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                        “Optimism is usually defined as a belief that things will go well. But that’s incomplete. Sensible optimism is a belief that the odds are in your favor, and over time things will balance out to a good outcome even if what happens in between is filled with misery. And in fact you know it will be filled with misery. You can be optimistic that the long-term growth trajectory is up and to the right, but equally sure that the road between now and then is filled with landmines, and always will be. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.”

                        Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

                        Quote from The New Mutants Movie on the Two Bears Inside (and How To Control The Evil Bear In You)

                          Quote from The New Mutants Movie on the Two Bears Inside and How To Control The Evil Bear In You

                          Excerpt: ‘Inside every person there are two bears, forever locked in combat for your soul. One bear is all things good, compassion, love, trust. The other is all things evil, fear, shame, and self-destruction.’ — This quote from The New Mutants Movie lays the foundation for a deeper discussion about what’s going on inside of ourselves. Enjoy!

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