“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
– Charles M. Schulz
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The mind – Unknown
“The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master”
– Unknown
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Procrastinating – @VeryGrumpyCat
“I put the pro in procrastinating.”
– Very Grumpy Cat @VeryGrumpyCat
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Imagine – Arul Subramaniam
“If I’m going to imagine something, I imagine it in my favour.”
– Arul Subramaniam
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Escape the present – John Green
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
– John Green
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True friendship – Albert Einstein
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
– Albert Einstein
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Self-discipline – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I have discovered that, important as self-discipline is to a child, it is increasingly important as one grows older. Then it is really essential for your well-being to regulate your life and habits in a sensible way.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole – like the world, or the person you loved.”
– Stewart O’Nan
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See things – Kyodo Williams
You just want to open the space around it
so that you can expand your vision to see things just as they are.”
– Kyodo Williams
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No one – Alain De Botton
“No one is as strong as they seem – or as daunting as we fear.”
– Alain De Botton
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Social media – Ryan Holiday
“Almost universally, the kind of performance we give on social media is positive. It’s more ‘Let me tell you how well things are going. Look how great I am.’ It’s rarely the truth: ‘I’m scared. I’m struggling. I don’t know.’”
– Ryan Holiday
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Real love moves freely – Cheryl Strayed
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”
– Cheryl Strayed
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Self-criticism – Alain De Botton
“We have taken self-criticism too far when it no longer has any effect on our level of achievement, when it simply saps our morale and our will to get out of bed.”
– Alain De Botton
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Stars in my eyes – Taylor from Ohio
“I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.”
– Taylor from Ohio
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Elevates the soul – Gustave Flaubert
“Doesn’t it seem to you, that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary