"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Robert Collier

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In my next life I want to live my life backwards.

You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.

You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila!

You finish off as an orgasm!

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The first time you fall in love, it’s such a transcendent feeling, it’s like eating Pizza flavored ice cream. Your brain can’t even process that level of joy…

I think our who lives no matter how low our self esteem gets there’s some part of us that thinks: ‘I have a secret special skill that no one knows about, and if they knew they would be amazed.’

And eventually we meet someone who goes ‘You have a secret special skill.’ and you’re like ‘I know, so do you!’ and they’re like ‘I know!’ and then you’re like ‘We should eat pizza ice cream, together.’.

And that’s what love is, it’s the mountain of pizza ice cream, and delusion.

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Mike Birbiglia

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it."

C.P. Snow

"Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing."

Benjamin Franklin

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."

• Steve Jobs

motivation

As we all speed through life we are always seeking feelings which at times appear to be out of our grasp, but they are not outside of our reach because they have eluded us instead we have caused them to elude us. We approach cruical things like love, meaning, and motivation as if they are something that we have to find but that is not so.

All of these pieces of our lives can’t be found under a rock or in some mystical chest, we have to create each of them for ourselves. We all need to stop having the expectation that we will find love, or that we will be given meaning by others. We need to architects of our own fate and find someone whom gets your attention and seek to create love. It might not happen the first time, but the adventure is what truly makes life interesting.

The sooner you discover that you can’t just reach for the prize to attain it but instead spend the time to forge the prize and then place it outside of your reach so you can try as hard as you can to grasp it the more successful you will be not only in your careers but in everything in life.

"The first time you fall in love it’s such a transcendent feeling; it’s like eating pizza flavored ice cream, you know your brain can’t even process that level of joy."

Mike Birbiglia

"Optimists have more fun. Maybe things are going to turn out okay — in which case the pessimists are killing themselves and being miserable for no good reason at all. Even if everything is going to turn out terribly, the optimists are having more fun before the final tragedy comes…whereas the pessimists are living in misery all the time."

  Robert Anton Wilson

"Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde