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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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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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"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

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"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven."

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"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

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A Single Man" by Christopher Isherwood

"Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, so far from anyone else—each convinced that he is alone in his love for the other."

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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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Aldous Huxley on approaching life with lightness, even in the face of difficulty:

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig.

Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me… So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly.”

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