"Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life." - Robert Greene

If you are willing to do hard things, boring things, unpleasant and grueling things - you will lap 90% of people in almost everything.

- Dr Julie Gurner

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"Sometimes the grass is greener, because it's fake." - unknown

A lot of people are chasing ghosts.

A shortcut, a lifestyle, or success in business or crafting their body that requires nothing of them.

It's all fake green grass.

Real paths will always require work.

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Read, like and restack: I've got plenty of time

Alexi Pappas on the truth about time:

“'I don’t have enough time' is not a useful phrase when it comes to anything related to your dream. It’s okay to actively choose to do something or not, but don’t blame time.”

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She can’t shake the feeling—eyes on her, shadows trailing her steps, an unspoken presence lingering. She lives alone in the apartment... or does she?

Watch on YouTube here: The Apartment ( Dropping more Motion comics from the series soon)

Motion comic conceptualized, animated, and created on @morphic.

The most important thing is not to let yourself get impatient. This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to figure it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.
— Haruki Murakami

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Betrayal from a friend is far more dangerous than attack from an enemy.

The closer someone is to you, the more quickly and extensively they can damage you.

Few powerful men are destroyed by their enemies.

Far more common are powerful men destroyed by their supposed allies.

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“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.“

— Carl Jung

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At some point you don't need any more advice or motivational quotes or clever sayings.

You just need silence and a work ethic.

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Cynicism feels like intelligence… Pessimism feels like maturity.

Both are just mental laziness dressed up as wisdom.

It takes no skill to call out what’s broken.

The real work is imagining what’s better—and building it.

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"The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small."

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Read, like and Restack: Don't hurt me, please

The more you think about yourself, the more miserable you get.

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Everyone dreams big until they see the price tag.

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People think you have to be "so sophisticated" to do big things, and the truth is - you don't.

You just have to be relentless about taking action again & again and learning on the way forward.

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Life is actually quite funny.

One day you’re wishing for something, and the next, you have it.

But you forget you were once wishing for it, so then you just take it for granted and start wishing for something else, for something better.

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The weight of the tasks undone and issues ignored is always heavier than the burden of handling them head-on. Avoidance is the most toxic trait you can develop, and it will quietly poison all your life.

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People who warn you about "hustle culture," should warn you more about poverty.

Sometimes the only way out, is through.

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