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“You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.”

Way Life Events Happenings Locals Cosmic Rooted

Author:Michael Beckwith

“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.”

Ifs Life Humans May Helping Life Is Space Accepting Our Lives Events Return Dust Human Life Overwhelming End Times Spend Time Unfathomable

Author:Alain de Botton

“Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.”

Life Heart Events Approach Blessed Consent

Author:Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

“Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.”

Life Hate Force Our Lives Events Iraq Convinced Destructive Tragic Monday July Coups Tragic Events

Author:Ala Bashir

“Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.”

Life Forget Events Life And Death Life Death

Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

“Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis).”

People Life Should Wells Littles Persons Important Bigs Growth Differences Too Much Events Solutions Crisis Important Things Personal Growth Investing Contact Expenses Margins Perfectionist

Author:Ray Dalio

“Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.”

Life Giving Trying Our Lives Events Meaning Of Life Cycles Edits Life Means

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“If there's somebody that I love that's in my life, I don't necessarily have to agree with their decisions or the decisions they've made to continue to love them and participate in important events.”

Ifs Love Life Made Important Decision Events Agree Love Life Important Events

Author:Marco Rubio

“Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.”

Life Science Life Is Events Areas Chains Centre Compass Chain Of Events

Author:Stephen Graham

“Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.”

Men Life Events Prepared Preparation Cycles Be Prepared

Author:Menander