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Poet and novelist May Sarton on letting go:
“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep…
Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
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“An expert is someone who, over many years, manages to remain confident enough to keep trying and humble enough to keep learning.”
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“Slowing down enables you to act in a high quality way.
Kind rather than curt. Polished rather than sloppy.
It's hard to be thoughtful when you're in a rush.”
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“You have no responsibility to live up to someone else's expectation of you.
Spend as little time as possible chasing other people's preferences instead of your own.”
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