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    “Be thoughtful and honest with yourself about your missteps, but don’t start dwelling on them. People beat themselves up and obsess about something that happened thirteen years ago—a business partnership that didn’t work out, a startup that failed, or a boss they didn’t like—and it becomes the jail they live in. With all the time you have left, there’s zero value in getting bogged down there. If I ever get into that mud, I’m grabbing my gratitude hose to wash it off.”

    Gary Vaynerchuk, Twelve and a Half

      “I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I’m going to hear. On you—if it’s Tuesday. Because we’re Tuesday people.”

      Morrie Schwartz, via Tuesdays With Morrie (Page 57)

        “In all things we should try to make ourselves be as grateful as possible. For gratitude is a good thing for ourselves, in a manner in which justice, commonly held to belong to others, is not. Gratitude pays itself back in large measure.”

        Seneca, Moral Letters, via The Daily Stoic (Page 385)

          “If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”

          Oscar Wilde

            “What keeps our faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids—all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.”

            Garrison Keillor, via Sunbeams (Page 107)

              “Don’t set your mind on things you don’t possess as if they were yours, but count the blessings you actually possess and think how much you would desire them if they weren’t already yours. But watch yourself, that you don’t value these things to the point of being troubled if you should lose them.”

              Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, The Daily Stoic (Page 149)

                “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

                Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, via Sunbeams (Page 91)

                  “One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.”

                  Anne Morrow Lindbergh, via Sunbeams (Page 87)