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As long as you live, keep learning how to live (Seneca)

Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond
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Decisions establish trajectory. A decision that doesn’t establish trajectory is a fantasy (Dan Rockwell)

Photo by  Marc-Olivier Jodoin  on  Unsplash
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Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your life will be serene (Epictetus)

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I would much rather try and fall on my face than to have given up because only one of those outcomes guarantees failure (George Couros)

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Sonja's father allows Ove to look at his truck (A Man Called Ove)

The two men looked at each other for a moment. Then Sonja's father nodded. And Ove nodded curtly back. And then they rose to their feet, objective and determined, in the way two men might behave if they had just agreed to go and kill a third man. Fredrik Backman ( A man Called Ove )
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I tried to win football games (Arsène Wenger)

I f God exists and one day I go up there and he will ask: ‘Do you want to come in? What have you done in your life?’ The only answer I will have is: ‘I tried to win football games.’ He will say: ‘Is that all you have done?’ And the only answer I will have is: ‘It’s not as easy as it looks.’ Arsène Wenger
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Get started, write something, hit publish (Warren Purdy)

Photo by  Aaron Burden  on  Unsplash My first original aphorism came to me in a dream recently!
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