The risk of mistakes

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

John W. Gardner

/phil

The comparison problem

If you compare yourself with others you may become vain or bitter,  for always there will be a greater and lesser person than yourself.
Max Ehrmann

Embrace life

The sun is perfect and  you woke this morning. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has an will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

Warsan Shire

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A sense of security

I create my own securty by trusting the process of life.

Louise Hay

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Oddly motivating

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.

John Muir

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As I began to love myself…

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “Love of oneself”.

Charlie Chaplin

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Enjoy your problems

To live life you need problems. If you get everything you want the minute you want it, then what’s the point of living?

/phil

Enthusiasm!

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests.
John Stuart Mill

Get started

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

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There is no happiness in stagnancy

A magic dwells in each beginning,
protecting us, telling us how to live.

High purposed we shall traverse realm on realm,
cleaving to none as to a home, […]

only he who is ready to journey forth
can throw old habits off.

Hermann Hesse

This is an excerpt from a great poem called ‘steps’ which I can only recommend to read in its whole beauty.

/robin