Happiness And Freedom Begin With A Clear Understanding Of One Principle: Some Things Are Within Our Control,

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

Epictetus (via the-red-lotus-blog)

I love gift wrapping and if I could quit my job for two weeks just to wrap gifts I would do it.

hard pill to swallow: there are some things that are not meant for you. you will meet people that are not willing to stay. there will be times that you will fail. but don’t be discouraged because alongside, you are meant to be something, you will meet people that will stay, and most importantly, you will get better.

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin

“Hi there” in a business email is basically code for “I intend to be a persistent irritation”

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting. It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Gertrude Stein, on writing (via violentwavesofemotion)