Posts tagged quotes
Posts tagged quotes
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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It’s choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
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People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
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Mistakes aren’t things to be discouraged. On the contrary, they should be cultivated and carefully investigated.
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Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process.
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I just wish I could start a relationship about twelve years in, when you really don’t have to try anymore, and you can just sit around together and goof on TV shows, and then go to bed without anybody trying any funny business.
Liz Lemon
Is it weird that I still really like this quote and think of it often?
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I’ve been increasingly repeating the phrase “You’re killing me, Smalls” over the last couple weeks. I’m okay with that.
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The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
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A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. There are certainly other causes of illness, numbing, and hurt, but the absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.
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How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important, but there is something that is even more essential to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves.
