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Being alone does not equal being lonely.
I’ve learned to truly love being alone thanks to the pandemic.
I think many toxic relationships in my twenties would have ended sooner if I had less fear of being alone / lonely.
Things I Know at 35,
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@AmandaMGoetz on Twitter
Reason and the art of reasoning are faculties self-determined by their own nature and their own products. They start from the relevant premise and follow the path to the proposed end. That is why acts of reason are called ‘right’ acts, signifying the rightness of the path thus followed.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Every morning, on my run, I try to take a picture of a flower and share it on Instagram. I was inspired to do this by a passage I read many years ago in a book by C. S. Lewis (I think it was The Great Divorce), in which a character, after death, only sees the flowers as blobs of color, and his spirit guide tells him, “That’s because you never really looked at them when you were alive.” As the line from Hamilton says, “Look around. Look around. How lucky we are to be alive right now!”
Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferriss
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