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Try to live with the part of your soul which understands eternity, which is not afraid of death. And that part of your soul is love.
A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy and Peter Sekirin
Successful prevention goal pursuit requires us to dampen or suppress our optimism in the service of our motivation. When you need to be vigilant, you can’t afford to be confident—no matter how successful you’ve been in the past. People with a history of reaching their prevention goals seem to know this intuitively.
Succeed
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and Carol S. Dweck
The split self or inner conflict must manifest on the first pages and form the book’s thrust or through line—some journey toward the self’s overhaul by book’s end. However random or episodic a book seems, a blazing psychic struggle holds it together, either thematically or in the way a plot would keep a novel rolling forward.
The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
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