Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligations. Shoulds set up a false dichotomy between either meeting an ideal or being a failure, between perfection or settling. The tyranny of the should even pits us against our own best interests. Meg Jay
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.
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Carrie Underwood
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
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Audrey Niffenegger
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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Flannery OConnor
Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
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Nora Roberts
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
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Robert H. Schuller
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It’s the people we hardly know, and not our closest friends, who will improve our lives most dramatically
Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. "–George A. Dorsey, anthropologist
