Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
Body positivity is as simple as making the choice to love yourself despite your shortcomings.
To embrace your whole self and not let others dictate how you feel about your body.
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The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have mastered is the occasional capacity to acknowledge with good grace that we may, in one or two areas, be somewhat insane.
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don’t know yet who they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate.
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.
The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.
It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.
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Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
