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“And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?” quote by Meg Wolitzer — Download Open image

“And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?”

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“This was a time of life, she understood, in which you might not know what you were, but that was all right. You judged people not on their success - almost no one they knew was successful at age twenty-two, and no one had a nice apartment, owned anything of value, dressed in expensive clothes, or had any interest in…

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Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

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Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous,…

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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

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