Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.
Gretchen RubinRead
Focus not on doing less or doing more but on doing what you value.
Interpretation
Prioritize actions that align with your values rather than simply increasing or decreasing your productivity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of aligning our actions with our personal values. Rather than getting caught up in the quantity of tasks we do, it suggests that we should focus on the quality and significance of what we choose to engage in, ensuring that our efforts are meaningful and fulfilling.
In practice
In a motivational talk about work-life balance.
Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.
One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.
To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.
I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly
I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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