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What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?
It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.
But to yell at your creativity, saying, ‘You must earn money for me!’ is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you’re talking about, and all you’re doing is scaring it away, because you’re making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that.
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Done is better than good.
People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.
The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.
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