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18 Life Lessons That Every Grandparent Should Teach Their Grandchildren
#15. Please don’t believe everything they say on TV. Grandparents should be eternal, but they are not. So, yesterday I did something crazy and asked my Twitter audience (116k people) for the best lesson they received from their grandparents. And the tweet already has more than 35 thousand views and almost 180 responses. From those 180…
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Three Life Lessons I Learned After the Universe F*cked Me Over
Three life lessons got me out of the hole that I wish someone had shared with me earlier. A few years ago, I lost all I cared about. My Startup, girlfriend, friends, and all my savings. All the same month. When I realized I was living in a two-square-meter room in a shared flat, which was…
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The Mind-blowing Quote by Milan Kundera That Will Make You Rethink Your Reality
Rethinking your life is sometimes a matter of reading the right quote. There is a small second-hand bookshop that I usually pass by, and I love to look in the window and let myself be seduced by the titles of the books on display. And whenever a book catches my eye, I go in and buy…
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Three Signs You Are Becoming the Person You Were Born to Be
Find out if you are on the right path. Life is like a Jim Carrey movie: it doesn’t seem to make sense, but if you let yourself go, you enjoy the show. The problem is that life is much longer than a two-hour movie. And we get impatient when we spend years, even decades, without knowing…
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The Alan Watts Disturbing Theory About Consciousness That Will Change Your Outlook on Life
Discover the wisdom of one of the greatest spiritual philosophers of the XX century. Everything goes fast these days; everything changes at lightning speed. So much so that I often don’t know what decision to make or what to do with my life. Because what’s good for today may not be suitable for a year from…
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Soji, the Japanese Habit to Transform Your State of Mind
The Buddhist Monk practice that (if you apply) can change your day for the better. My Youtube feed seems to have Diogenes: I log in and get a pile of videos full of sh*t. My Twitter feed seems bipolar: one day, it’s right-wing, and the next, it’s left-wing. It’s vegan and carnivore, environmentalist and denialist, Buddhist,…
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The Powerful Quote From Rumi That Changed My Life Forever
Learn from one of the wisest persons of all time. The fish dies by the mouth. And It’s the same in life. As the Epictetus used to say, “we have two ears to hear twice as much before we speak.” But we find it very hard to keep it in mind, and in the end, our…
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Nothing in the Universe Happens by Chance; Everything Has a Reason for Being in Your Life
Yesterday something unique happened to me. We were walking down the street, and my mother stopped by the window of a shop specializing in making jewelry with stones. And she said to me, “I like that ring so much that it seems to be calling me. And I’m sure it costs at most 30 euros.” The…
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A Quote From Jesus of Natharet Which Gives Me Goosebumps Every Time I Read It
This quote changes my life. When I was at school, my mother made me quit my religion classes for fear that I would become a priest. According to my mother, I used to hide at night to pray for hours. I don’t remember; I was very young. What I do remember is when I moved away…
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5 Signs You’re a Miracle Worker
Some people are not people. They are angels disguised as people. There are people who appear when you need them most. People who are angels disguised as regular Joes. People who hold your hand when no one else does. There are people whose words have the power to heal. There are people who have the gift…