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I have been thinking a lot lately about the words I heard a woman preach on the train several months ago, “Money cannot buy health and strength.” I think there is something to be said in this statement about how we live our lives + the paths we choose to follow, an expression that is calling to mind what is best for my heart and soul…
every day brings a ship,
every ship brings a word;
well for those who have no fear,
looking seaward well assured
that the word the vessel brings
is the word they wish to hear.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising to marketing, etcetera. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out all along.”
—Alain de Botton
make it count
Simply incredible!







