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- Die complete tonight
Ask each day: what would I need to do today so I could die complete tonight? Orient the arc of the day around those few things. Ian's answer: undivided presence with his wife, time in…
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Walls crumble and empires fall... the rotting nations drop off from time's bough, and only the things the dreamers make live on.
If you keep saying I'm going to be happy when I hit this goal, you're going to be miserable your whole life.
Most men die at 30 but they're not buried till they're 80.
To me literature is a tonic for empathy. It's something that you can take and all of a sudden feel in ways that you weren't able to feel before.
If you put yourself in that same lens, if someone wrote a story about you, you'd probably be a lot more empathetic towards it.
If you get addicted to self-help you're going to look at the mirror every day and realize you're not good enough.