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It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

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The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#service #volunteerism #life

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#life #mind #life

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#wisdom #life

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#johnny-depp #life #shit #life

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#life-lessons #reality #life

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. ↗

— Alex Flinn

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One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublesome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#life-truths #humor

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#perfectionism #writing #life