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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
— Thomas Merton, Interview with Forbes (via kvtes)
The Secret to Happiness in Five Paragraphs
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- The natural state of human experience is serene joy.
- The three things that negatively affect this natural state are pain, dealing with adversity and negative thinking either in the form of past regret or imagined painful futures.
- Most of the time we are not dealing with adversity at that moment nor are we in physical pain.
- Thus, thought and thought alone is responsible for the vast majority of our emotional turmoil, disharmony and unhappiness.
- Stopping thought, even for a few minutes a day, returns us to our natural state of serene joy and by so doing prepares us to deal with adversity when it does come.
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I want to apologize to all the women I have called beautiful before I’ve called them intelligent or brave. I am sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is all you have to be proud of when you have broken mountains with your wit. From now on I will say things like you are resilient, or you are extraordinary not because I don’t think you’re beautiful, but because I need you to know you are more than that.
— Rupi Kaur (via wordsnquotes)
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