Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.
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Have gratitude for the things you're discarding. By giving gratitude, you're giving closure to the relationship with that object, and by doing so, it becomes a lot easier to let go.
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.
It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.
I have sat with countless patients and families to discuss grim prognoses: It's one of the most important jobs physicians have. It's easier when the patient is 94, in the last stages of dementia, and has a severe brain bleed. For young people like me - I am 36 - given a diagnosis of cancer, there aren't many words.
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, Which way are others going?
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.'
Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it _x000D_ Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better _x000D_ Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill _x000D_ Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom _x000D_ It's the challenge that makes the experience. _x000D_ Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences. _x000D_ To wish them away is to wish your life away.
I played futsal growing up in Baurd. In futsal you need to think quick and play quick so its easier for you when you move to normal football.
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.
It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
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