The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
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I am grateful for my hardworking, loving parents. This one’s for them.
Love you mamma, pappa.
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+ Give yourself permission to have a completely free-range day. Turn off your phone (or leave it at home!), take a bike ride, get lost in your own city. Stop in a bookshop, take a nap in the park and write a letter to an old friend
A very nice article on resting here.
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When you have an asthma attack, you can’t breathe. When you can’t breathe, you can hardly talk. To make a sentence all you get is the air in your lungs. Which isn’t much. Three to six words, if that. You learn the value of words. You rummage through the jumble in your head. Choose the crucial ones–those cost you, too. Let healthy people toss out whatever comes to mind, the way you throw out the garbage. When an asthmatic says “I love you,” and when an asthmatic says “I love you madly,” there’s a difference. The difference of a word. A word’s a lot. It could be “stop,” or “inhaler.” It could be “ambulance.
Be strong. I love you,
From Miranda July’s: An email with I love you in it. We Think Alone, Week 12
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