Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and a quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.
Pablo Cohello
A Buddhist scholar I know once explained to me that Westerners mistakenly think that nirvana is what arrives when all your woe is behind you and you have only bliss to look forward to. But he said that would not be nirvana, because your bliss in the present would always be shadowed by the joy from the past. Nirvana, he said, is what you arrive at when you have only bliss to look forward to and find in what looked like sorrows the seedlings of your joy.
Andrew Solomon
/robin
Happiness starts with you. Not with you relationships, not with your job, not with your money, but with you.
/phil
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
/phil
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virgina Woolf
/robin
Don’t texg or tweet during the show. Just live your life. Don’t keep telling people what you’re doing…
And it lights up your big dumb face.
Louis C.K.
/phil
I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Mark Twain
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remeber that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
/phil
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
And that’s a revelation for some people: to realize that your life is only ever now.
Eckhart Tolle
/phil
I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
Maya Angelou
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