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Leonardo Da Vinci Quote on Happy Death

    “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Beyond the Quote (12/365)

    At the end of every day, when you lay your head down on your pillow, there are usually a few moments of reflection.  Sometimes the movie of your mind plays memories from the day, or replays situations that you might have acted on differently, or even anticipates the things that are to come.  Sometimes these thoughts and reflections leave you feeling dissatisfied and sometimes they leave you feeling accomplished.  When you pay attention to, and are mindful of, the average feeling of how you spent the time of your days, then you can start to navigate, and get in tune with, the direction and path of your life.

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      “You may find it hard to recognize that time is the cause of your suffering or your problems.  You believe that they are caused by specific situations in your life, and seen from a conventional viewpoint, this is true.  But until you have dealt with the basic problem-making dysfunction of the mind—its attachment to past and future and denial of the Now—problems are actually interchangeable.  If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering, like a shadow that follows you wherever you go.  Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.”

      Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 61)

        “I learned in SEAL training that if I wanted any extra time to study the academic material we were given, prepare our room and my uniforms for an inspection, or just stretch out aching muscles, I had to make that time because it did not exist on the written schedule.  When I check into my first SEAL Team, that practice continued.  If I wanted extra time to work on my gear, clean my weapons, study tactics or new technology, I needed to make that time.  The only way you could make time, was to get up early.  That took discipline.” ~ Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership (Page 271)

          “So often we measure the day by what we do with it—cure cancer or surf in Maui or meet with our child’s math teacher—and overlook what is truly miraculous, which is the arrival of another day.  Enjoy it or not.  The day doesn’t care, but if you miss it, it won’t be back again.” ~ John Leland, Happiness is a Choice You Make (Page 216)

            “This may be the one-sentence essence of what I learned in my year among the oldest old: to shut down the noise and fears and desires that buffet our days and think about how amazing, really amazing, life is.  Could I do this?  Before the year began, my answer would have been no, that the noise and fears and desires were life itself.  But as the year went along I found myself shifting my focus to the quiet beneath the noise—how unlikely the moment was, how each sliver contained a gift that might never return.  Maybe this was what it meant to think like an old person.  I couldn’t live wholly in the moment, because I had a future to think about, but if I had learned anything, it was to live as if this future were finite, and the present all the more wondrous as a result.” ~ John Leland, Happiness is a Choice You Make (Page 210)

              “We all waste so much time doing meaningless bullsh*t.  We burn hours on social media and watching television, which by the end of the year would add up to entire days and weeks if you tabulated time like you do your taxes.  You should, because if you knew the truth you’d deactivate your Facebook account STAT, and cut your cable.  When you find yourself having frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that don’t better you in any way, move the f*ck on!” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

                “Life’s beauty is inseparable from its fragility: We are young until we are not. We walk down the streets sexy until one day we realize that we are unseen. We nag our children and one day realize that there is silence where that child once was, now making his or her way in the world. We are healthy until a diagnosis brings us to our knees. The only certainty is uncertainty, and yet we are not navigating this frailty successfully or sustainably.” ~ Susan David, Ph.D, Mindful

                  “Time magnifies the margin between success and failure.  It will multiply whatever you feed it.  Good habits make time your ally.  Bad habits make time your enemy.” ~ James Clear, Atomic Habits

                    “You’re already a financial trader.  You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you’re trading your time for money.  Frankly, it’s just about the worst trade you can make.  Why?  You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time.” ~ Tony Robbins, Money: Master the Game