"Never do anything in the gym today that prevents you from working out tomorrow."
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Something my four-year-old told me recently:
"We need to be kind to the future."
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"Don't just tell your spouse that you love them--tell them why you like them. Point out the qualities that make them fun to be around, the parts of their personality that shine, the little moments you genuinely enjoy together. 'I love you' matters, but so does 'I like spending time with you.'"
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Writer John Steinbeck on giving ourselves permission to act, learn, and grow:
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."
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It's not about what we achieve, but who we become in the process:
"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know." [I.e. After Elul and the Yomim Noraim].
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Many of the good things in life are downstream from being helpful and useful to others. What can you do today to be useful to someone else?
