I’ve learned an important trick: to develop foresight, 

you need to practice hindsight. 

- Jane McGonigal

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Adventures don’t begin until you get into the forest.  

That first step is an act of faith. 

 - Mickey Hart

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The purpose of life is to experience things

 for which you will later experience nostalgia.  

- FedSpeak (Twitter account)

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People are not rational.  They are rationalizing.  

Once you understand this simple fact, 

all the oddest human behavior will suddenly make way more sense.  

- Billy Markus

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The smallest unit of community is not the individual 

but it’s the relationship. 

- Rachael Rice

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Rest if you need to – those who try are worthy of pause. 

Cry if you need to – those who try do not need to be strong all the time. 

Vent if you need to – those who try have a right to release their frustration; 

they carry enough as it is. 

Celebrate if you need to – those who try deserve recognition cupcakes, flowers, and notes. 

Accept yourself if you need to – those who try are entitled to loving themselves 

right where they are.

 And where you are right now, brave self, is quite remarkable. 

 - Rachel Macy Stafford

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I’m going to trust that things will be okay. 

 And if they’re not, 

I’m going to trust I’ll be able to handle them.

 - Rachel Macy Stafford

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No need to hold it all together. Just be together.

  - Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici

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Idleness...does not consist in doing nothing, 

but in doing a great deal not recognized 

in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class. 

 - Robert Louis Stevenson

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If we realized that meditation simply means staring into space, 

then it would be more accessible to more people.  It’s easy...

find a chair and sit by the window.  That’s all that’s required. 

 - Tom Hodgkinson

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A creative life is an amplified life. 

It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, 

and a hell of a lot more interesting life

 – Elizabeth Gilbert

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Now and then I leave the big city of my messy, polluted head, 

travel down the coast of my body, 

and take a retreat in the cabin of my little toe. 

 - Darby Hudson

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