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  • that is called the pursuit of ignorance :) not searching for answers but searching for the right questions to ask that will lead to better questions
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  • Be more present.
    
    How?
    
        Stop looking at your damn phone
    
        Turn off all notifications
    
        Quit multitasking
    
        Don’t listen to podcasts when you walk
    
        Spend more time in nature
    
        Travel more
    
        Do things with actual meaning
    
        Work less hours
    
        Hang around less negative people that light your time on fire
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  • “Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
    — Frank Outlaw
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  • Do the weirdest thing that feels right.
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  • Water never complains, but always pushes back. Always. 
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  • “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
     
    – Mark Twain.
    
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  • Placing photos of diseased lungs makes smokers anxious and the best way to deal with anxiety, for a smoker, is to reach for another cigarette 
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  • Fitting in is more important than being right 
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  • Therefore to create is not only the most natural of things but also perhaps the closest to divinity we come in this life.
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  • “What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings … we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. “— Michio Kaku
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  • The currency of life isn’t money, it’s time.
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  • Seeking people’s approval is poverty. It makes you a prisoner.
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  • Do what you love, fight for what you love.
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  • All You Need to Know
    
    Here are four subtle signs you might be more anxious than you realize:
    
        Constant busyness
        Trying to find meaning in everything
        Black and white thinking
        Procrastination
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  • You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
    
    — William Faulkner
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  • An ice cube walks into a bar and asks for a whiskey.
    - bartender
     Ice ?
    John 
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  • One of the laws of resistance is that the more that we avoid something, the greater the resistance becomes. Therefore, every time we put something off, the more difficult it becomes to do.
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  • The best climber in the world is the one who's having the most fun.
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  • the turbo handbook
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  • the piña collider
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  • "Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much."
    
    Source: The Need for Roots​
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  • Happiness is simply the absence of desire... Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state.
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  • Υπολογιστικό νέφος
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  • "The brilliance of the stars would be invisible without the vast darkness of space behind them.
    
    Do not wish away the difficult portions of life. They provide the contrast needed to appreciate the joyful moments."
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  • Find your watermelon 🍉
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  • “If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
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  • Is this project pulling me in or am I pushing it forward? Is this relationship pulling me in or am I pushing it forward? 
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  • To know how to wait and stay grounded is, I think, part of living well. To wait with appreciation for the process, and to tend to the process with appreciation.
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  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
    Leonardo da Vinci 
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  • People follow incentives, not advice.
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