Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Finish Each Day and Be Done With It
This pretty much sums it up
He who forgives ends the quarrel.
-African proverb
On Being Happy Just for the Hell of It
We are really advocates of just getting as happy as you can be — which takes care of everything. Even if you don’t have reason to be happy — make it up. Fantasize it. Make a decision that you’re going to be happy one way or another — no matter what. “No matter what, I’m [...]
On Focus
It’s all about focus. When your “why” is that important, you find the “how” more easily.
Erin Pavlina’s comment on why Steve Pavlina was able to graduate college in three semesters. Found on their online forum.
Expect Growth, Not Perfection
Expect growth, not perfection.
From Steve Pavlina’s twitter on June 16th
On Negativity and the Ego
You will be free to let go of your unhappiness the moment you recognize it as unintelligent. Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego. The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which [...]
RISE!
RISE! If you’re sleepin won’t you open your eyes again
The greatest high be that natural high within
No need to force the progression just ride the wind
You’ll know the answer to the where and why and when
If you keep workin for your search you will find the end
Though at the end you find it only begins [...]
On Friendship
“I shall ask into my shell only those friends with whom I can be completely honest. I find I am shedding hypocrisy in human relationships. What a rest that will be. The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
From Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s “Gift from the Sea”
Resentment
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” – Nelson Mandela.
