NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1216

 

• ·       Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh

  ·       "The fault is in us." - Hannah Arendt

  ·       Joy is not meant to be a crumb.

  ·       “Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around—swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.” ~ Augusten Burroughs

  ·       “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.” ~ Patti Smith

  ·       “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Sacks

  ·       If you want to do more you have to commit to less. Raise the standards. Narrow the focus. - Shane Parrish

  ·         Yutori: Intentionally slowing down to simply be, breathe, listen and appreciate the beauty of nature and life.

  ·        “Curiosity—the spirit of investigation, the urge of discovery, the drive of exploration—is a part of the inborn and divine endowment of evolutionary space creatures.”

  ·       The only way we can change is to be real with ourselves. - David Goggins

  ·       “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ~ Joseph Campbell

  ·       “The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system.” ~ Viktor Frankel

  ·       “To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth Gilbert