October 2009
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1. You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.
2. If you don’t decide for yourself what you want to get out of life, someone else will probably end up deciding for you.
3. There is usually more than one way to accomplish something.
4. You can do good things for yourself and help other people at the same time.
- Chris Guillebeau (via The Art of Non-Conformity)
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Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka →
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I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.”
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If you think you haven’t found your passion yet, you’re probably...
– Derek Sivers (link). Every day, Derek always gives me a little more hope that I’ll find my way eventually.
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It’s not about what happened in the past, or what you think might happen in the...
– Along Came Polly (via littlemiss)
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Junot Diaz Talks About What Made Him Become a... →
“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
– Bill Cosby (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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Ode to the Nice Guys →
“This is a tribute to the nice guys.”
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner...
– Truman Capote (via quote-book)
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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine,...
– Walter Benjamin (via m-altruism) (via justbesplendid)
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