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We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played. -Alan Watts
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Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete in and of itself. How do you get there? One is, that you have so much money saved up that your passive income off of that covers your burn rate. Second is, you just drive your burn rate down to zero. Become a monk. Third is, you’re doing something you love. You’re enjoying it so much that it’s not about the money.
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Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life. -Unknown
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
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I want my pedestal moment, I want to become that big, and what I want to come from that is that kids that aren’t even born today think that they can build a $5 billion dollar company and be a great guy or great gal. -Gary Vaynerchuck
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The only way to succeed is if the pain of doing something is less than the pain of doing nothing. You must, therefore, increase the pain of doing nothing. -Jon Morrow
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The mind is a kite and the body is the string. In order to move the kite you must move the string. -Unknown
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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any vi..
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It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of society as a whole. -Ursula K LeGuin
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I wonder, I wonder, what you would do if you had the power to dream at night any dream you wanted to dream? And you would, of course, be able to alter your time sense, and slip, say, 75 years of subjective time into 8 hours of sleep. You would, I suppose, start out by fulfilling all your wishes. You could design for yourself what would be the most ecstatic life: love affairs, banquets, dancing girls, wonderful journeys, gardens, music bey..
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To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. -Carlos Castaneda
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And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather… a lack of will. -Vince Lombardi
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. -Lao Tzu
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I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for diffi..
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love… “Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially to yourself. -Zosima
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When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You apprecia..
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Step 1: Consider the habit you want to build, e.g. “I want to meditate 10 minutes every day” Step 2: Make it the absolute smallest possible version of itself; so small that it requires zero motivation/willpower, e.g. “I want to close my eyes and take 3 deep breaths every day” Step 3: Place this habit immediately following an existing habit, e.g. “After I brush my teeth in the morning, I will close my eyes and take 3 deep breaths”
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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. -Buddha
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If your plan is for 1 year, plant rice. If your plan is 10 years, plant trees. If your plan is for a 100 years, educate children. -Confucius
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Children do not belong to you, and they do not come from you. They only come through you. It is a privilege that we must appreciate and enjoy, rather than thinking it is our right or trying to determine where they should go and what they should do. As long as they are working towards their wellbeing and they are not doing something negative against their own life, you must wait. For the entire time until the child becomes twenty-one, you mu..
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You want to know the certainty of death in life. This is called belief, belonging, identification. -Sadhguru
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
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Update 2021-07-06: the approach was updated using the Kish’s effective sample size . When you work with non-parametric distributions, quantile estimations are essential to get the main distribution properties. Once you get the estimation values, you may be interested in measuring the accuracy of these estimations. Without it, it’s hard to understand how trustable the obtained values are. One of the most popular ways to evaluate accuracy....
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Update 2021-07-06: the approach was updated using the Kish’s effective sample size . When you work with non-parametric distributions, quantile estimations are essential to get the main distribution properties. Once you get the estimation values, you may be interested in measuring the accuracy of these estimations. Without it, it’s hard to understand how trustable the obtained values are. One of the most popular ways to evaluate accuracy....
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