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“ I need to know that everything will be OK,” she continued quietly.” That I will be able to live with myself.”
A sharp tug in my chest. How often had I whispered those same words to the ceiling in the rectory, lying awake in bed, consumed with thoughts of what my life could have been? I need to know that everything will be OK.
Didn’t we all wasn’t that unspoken cry of our broken souls?
“ I don’t know if everything will be OK. It may not be. You may think you are at the lowest point now and then look up one day and see that it’s gotten so much worse.” I looked down at my hands, the hands that had pulled my oldest sister from a rope after she hung herself in my parents garage.” You may not ever be able to get out of bed in the morning with the security. That moment of OK may never come.All you can do is try to find a new balance, a new starting point. Find whatever love is left in your life and hold on to it tightly. And one day,things will have gotten less grey, less dull. One day, you might find that you have a life again. A life that makes you happy.”
- Priest
“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy.”
if it makes you painful you ought to think more, otherwise you'll repeat the same mistakes; but if it makes you happy, you ought to think less, and just do what you want to do. If it's the end of the world today, and you've never followed what your heart truly desires, wouldn't that be a shame?
People are never happy with what they have. İf you give them one thing , they want something more.
People say this is a bad thing. But it is one of the greatest things about people. İt makes them better than animals. Animals are happy with what they have.
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The ten rules of ikigai
We’ll conclude this journey with ten rules we’ve distilled from the wisdom of the long-living residents of Ogimi:
1. Stay active; don’t retire. Those who give up the things they love doing and do well lose their purpose in life. That’s why it’s so important to keep doing things of value, making progress, bringing beauty or utility to others,
How can we be more antifragile?
Step 1: Create redundancies Instead of having a single salary, try to find a way to make money from your hobbies, at other jobs, or by starting your own business. If you have only one salary, you might be left with nothing should your employer run into trouble, leaving you in a position of fragility. On the other hand, if you have several options
Tell him, Nico di Angelo, said Cupid, voice sounding a lot like someone Nico knew. Tell him that you are a coward, afraid of yourself and your feelings. Tell him the real reason you left Camp Half-Blood, and why you are always alone.
The word echoed around Nico’s head in that strangely familiar voice: coward, coward, coward. That’s what he was,
Sanırım bunu hiç kimse okumayacak
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where are you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what do you think about it.
The God of Peace
The God of Peace is very busy. He has no time to look in the mirror, but blows his trumpet all day long. The God of Peace's trumpet brings everyone happiness.
The God of Peace is very busy. He has no time to look in the mirror, but spreads his magical water. The magical water raises mountains of green, nurtures the fields, and makes flower gardens.
The God of Peace is very busy. He has no time to look in the mirror, but gives everyone names. "Your name is Otto." "Your name is Hans." "Your name is Tomas." "Your name is Johan."
Johan gave his own hat to the God in thanks. He was very happy. He wanted to see himself with his new hat, so he looked into a mirror for the first time. But what he saw in the mirror was a Devil.
The Devil inside the God said, you are me, and I am you.
"What should I do? With this Devil, nobody can live in peace. What should I do?"
The God was very troubled...
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‘How'd'st rain rule here?’ says I to Evelyn to show her what a big poet I am — She really loves me, used to love me in the old days like a husband, for awhile there she had two husbands Cody and me, we were a perfect family till Cody finally got jealous or maybe I got jealous, it was wild for a while I'd be coming home from work on the railroad all dirty with my lamp and just as I came in for my Joy bubblebath old Cody was rushing off on a call so Evelyn had her new husband in the second shift then when Cody come home at dawn all dirty for his Joy bubblebath, ring, the phone's rung and the crew clerk's asked me out and I'm rushing off to work, both of us using the same old clunker car in shifts — And Evelyn always maintaining that she and I were really made for each other but her Karma was to serve Cody in this particular lifetime, which I really believe and I believe she loves him, too, but she'd say ‘I'll get you, Jack, in another lifetime . . . And you'll be very happy’ — ‘What?’ I'd yell to joke, ‘me running up the eternal halls of Karma tryina get away from you hey?’ — ‘It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,’ she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her — I wanta be chased for eternity till I catch her.
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He often makes blithe remarks about things he ‘wishes’. I wish you didn’t have to go, he says when she’s leaving, or: I wish you could stay the night. If he really wished for any of those things, Marianne knows, then they would happen. Connell always gets what he wants, and then feels sorry for himself when what he wants doesn’t make him happy.
“Imagine you’re at the edge of a forest, right before dawn. There’s no one else around, just you. It’s still dark, and you have no idea what you’re doing there. For whatever reason, you make up your mind to walk straight into the forest. After walking for a while, you come to a small house. Slowly, you open the door. Inside, you find ten sleeping children. The children are fast asleep. Now, in that moment, in that small house, there’s no joy, no pain, no happiness, no sadness. There’s nothing, because all the children are asleep. So what do you do? Wake them up or let them sleep? The choice is yours. If you wake them up, nine children will be happy that you did. They’ll smile and thank you. But one won’t. You know this, before you wake them up. You know that one child will feel nothing but pain from the moment they open their eyes until they finally die. Every second of that child’s life will be more horrible than death itself. You know this in advance. You don’t know which child it’s going to be, but you know that’s going to happen to one of them. If you bring a new life into the world, that’s exactly what you’re doing. You’re waking one of these kids up. You know what makes you think doing that’s okay? Because it’s got nothing to do with you.”
