If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
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I learned that it is important to be true to yourself. Many people do whatever society tells them to do. They’ve lost themselves. I grew up with Confucian values, and they are limiting. I focused only on work and making a living. But I’m old now. Remember not to lose who you are.

Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

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When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island
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That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.

Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.

Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Trees want to be still, but the wind won't stop blowing.When children want to care for their parents, it's already too late.

Pik-Shuen Fung, Ghost Forest

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If you're young and ambitious, you have 2 career options:

1. Enter an old industry - Wait 20 years until experienced people retire.

2. Enter a new industry - Become an expert in 12 months.

The competitive advantage of being young is you're an internet native. Use it.

Source : George Mack

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The Paradox of Focus:

Moving boldly in one direction not only increases your odds of getting there, but also increases your odds of picking up unexpected rewards along the way.

Make the most of one opportunity and more opportunities come your way. To get more, focus on less.

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