"A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun.
If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you’ll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead."
"We’re not really taught how to recreate constructively.
We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery — it recharges by running."
"You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along.
It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours,
because you’ll probably take a few."
"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive."
Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success."
"Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential
— as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth."
"You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not,
to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are,
who you are, and what you’re doing."
"To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble."
Found this on Brain Pickings
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