things i need to keep in mind 01
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” - George Addair
- If you’re having a bad day, it’s probably because you haven’t meditated or exercised or journalled. Or you’re mindlessly succumbing to temptations.
- Discipline. Discipline. Discipline.
- Know and accept yourself. Stop pretending to be someone you are not.
- The recipe to a good day is simple: self-care + kindness + discipline + patience. The recipe to lasting happiness is similar: gratitude + acceptance + compassion.
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself… Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
— Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook,”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (via
m-l-rio)