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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
“As human beings, we are given a unique opportunity to experience life with all its ups and downs, joys and sorrows. It is a privilege that must not be taken for granted.” - Hew Chee Fong (via Noosa Botanical Gardens)
“All of my efforts had been bent on reward; I had not understood that when we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward.” - The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho
Seth Godin on FOMO (the fear of missing out), joy and jealousy
“The only place joy can be found is right here and right now. Everyone who is selling you dissatisfaction is working for their own selfish ends.” - Seth Godin in Fomo, Joy, Jealousy and the Lizard
“Under the pavement, the dirt is dreaming of grass.”
“There is nothing more precious than the self.” - today’s Yogi Tea
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
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“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
- Patanjali
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Travel.
The best teachers
No limitations.
Whatever you are…
“The past is never fully gone. It is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do.” - Sir William Deane, 1996 (taken at the National Gallery Australia)
“If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.”
