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Everyday epiphanies
“While we focus on results, fulfillment is found in the process.”
“The greatest gift you’ll ever receive is who you eventually become.”
“Happiness is only found by pursuing something else.”
“You only find what matters by giving up what doesn’t.”
~ David Gipson, Seven Surprises
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Legacies
“When we think of legacies, we often think of some major act, or series of acts, that affect people on a large scale. But ... by investing in one person, by sharing our knowledge, or something as simple as a book, we may set in motion a series of events that will leave a legacy long after we are gone.”
~ Joe Byerly, “From the Green Notebook”, The Sunday Email
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Not in spite of but because of
“What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death, but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be.
If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose—not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures.”
~ Jann Arden, “If I Knew Then”
