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4 quotes on the practice + self-improvement
“Try harder.” They tell you to overcome your fear, develop better habits, take it personally, be vulnerable, and be sure to post it all online. The advice implies that if something wasn’t wrong with your character, you’d have no trouble succeeding. But going faster is useless if you’re running in the wrong direction. Strategy is a commitment to seeing the race course before we begin. Your effort is up to you. Surfing is better when we see and understand the waves.
Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.
“Try harder.” They tell you to overcome your fear, develop better habits, take it personally, be vulnerable, and be sure to post it all online. The advice implies that if something wasn’t wrong with your character, you’d have no trouble succeeding. But going faster is useless if you’re running in the wrong direction. Strategy is a commitment to seeing the race course before we begin. Your effort is up to you. Surfing is better when we see and understand the waves.
Added on Friday, August 21, 2026
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- Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.Zeno
- Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your me…Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.Marcus Aurelius
Added on Friday, August 21, 2026
Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.
Added in 2026
Along the same lines
- Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your me…Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.Marcus Aurelius
- “Try harder.” They tell you to overcome your fear, develop better habits, take it personally, be…Seth Godin
Added in 2026
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
Added in 2026
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- Deathan essay
- Not a dancer but a wrestler: waiting, poised, and dug in, for sudden assaults.Marcus Aurelius
- Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.Zeno
- The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all. And before long you'll be no one, nowh…Marcus Aurelius
- Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise an…Marcus Aurelius
- This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.Marcus Aurelius
- Mindfulness is healthy, it’s professional, and it allows us to be our best self. It is also madd…Seth Godin
- “Try harder.” They tell you to overcome your fear, develop better habits, take it personally, be…Seth Godin
Added in 2026
This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.
Added in 2026
Along the same lines
- Well-being is realized by small steps, but is truly no small thing.Zeno
- Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your me…Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
- “Try harder.” They tell you to overcome your fear, develop better habits, take it personally, be…Seth Godin
Added in 2026