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- Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.
- Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I have more time…
- Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.
- One reason that challenge brings happiness is that it allows you to expand your self - definition. You become larger. Suddenly you can do yoga…
- The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.
- Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
- Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more…
- The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to…
- Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.
- It's the task that's never started that's more tiresome.
- If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.
- The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to…
- ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made,…
- Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
- Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
- When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but…
- Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.
- It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself…
- What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.
- Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
- Accept yourself and expect more from yourself.
- One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order…
- Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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