We used to wait for it. Now we're screaming sing the chorus again. - Arcade Fire
Author: Munro Stewart
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Peace Train
Oh I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be, some day it's going to come. Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train. - Cat Stevens
Shine
Teach me how to speak, teach me how to share. Teach me where to go, tell me will love be there? Whoa, Heaven let your light shine down. - Collective Soul
We Used To Sleep Twice
And a scholar in England wrote that the time between the 'first sleep" and the 'second sleep' was the best time for serious study. - Delancey Place
We Used To Sleep Twice Each Night - Delancey Place
"Something puzzled [Roger] Ekirch as he leafed through parchments ranging from property records to primers on how to spot a ghost. He kept noticing strange references to sleep. In the Canterbury Tales, for instance, one of the characters in 'The Squire's Tale' wakes up in the early morning following her 'first sleep' and then goes back to bed. A fifteenth-century medical book, meanwhile, advised readers to spend the 'first sleep' on the right side and after that to lie on their left. And a scholar in England wrote that the time between the 'first sleep" and the 'second sleep' was the best time for serious study...Numerous other studies have shown that splitting sleep into two roughly equal halves is something that our bodies will do if we give them a chance. In places of the world where there isn't artificial light - and all the things that go with it, like computers, movies, and bad reality TV shows - people still sleep this way.
Police In Small Towns
I wouldn't want to be a cop in a big city. I think the police have it way easier in a small town. - Brent Butt
So Much In Common
Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet. - Unknown
Valentines Card From Secret Admirer
For the past 20 years I've received a Valentines card from the same secret admirer. So I was pretty upset when I didn't get one this year. First my granny dies and now this. - Colm Flynn
The Buddha Orders A Hotdog
What did the Buddha say when he walked up to the hotdog vendor? Make me one with everything. - Maniac TV Show
Your Own Original Ideas
But if all of that isn't built on your own original ideas and truthful analysis, it doesn't mean anything. - The Whale Movie
The Whale - Darren Aronofsky - Rotten Tomatoes
At this point in the course, I have given you all that I can in terms of structure, building a thesis, paragraph organization. But if all of that isn't built on your own original ideas and truthful analysis, it doesn't mean anything. Think about that, as you write and revise. Think about the truth of your argument.
I Don't Know How To Be Myself
I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done. - The Double Movie
The Double - Richard Ayoade - Rotten Tomatoes
I don't know how to be myself. It's like I'm permanently outside myself. Like you could push your hands straight through me if you wanted to. I can see the type of man I want to be versus the type of man I actually am and I know that I'm doing it but I'm incapable of what needs to be done. I'm like Pinocchio, a wooden boy. Not a real boy. And it kills me.
Why Is It A Penny?
Why is it a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Somebody's making a penny. - Steven Wright
On A Traffic Light
On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on and yellow means go ahead...And red means where the hell did you get that banana? - Mitch Hedberg
I'm Also A Writer
I'm also a writer...I write checks...Mostly fiction. - Wendy Liebman
And The Lord Said Unto John
And the lord said unto John, "Come forth and you will receive eternal life." But John came fifth, and won a toaster instead. - Unknown
Remember The Thinkist Definition
Remember that you can improve your life and the world for the better by turning your thoughts and dreams into action and reality.
- A person who uses their thinking and thoughts to transform their life and the world around them for the better. Their thoughts propel them to ultimately take action towards making their vision come true.
- A person who thinks that you can turn thoughts and ideas into reality.
- A person who understands that action, work, habits, and routines are also needed to make changes, complete tasks and projects, and achieve goals and dreams.
- A person who thinks that action and results begin with ideas, thinking, and believing.
Turn Problems Into Challenges
Turn your problems into challenges or goals that you can overcome or accomplish in order to be happier and improve your life.
15 Powerful things happy people do differently - Purpose Fairy
Happy people will see problems as challenges, as opportunities to explore new ways of doing things, expressing their gratitude for them, understanding that underneath them all lay many opportunities that will allow them to expand and to grow.
Write A List Of Goals
Write down a list of your goals and dreams, because writing thoughts and ideas down is the first step to making them come to life.
12 Lists that help you get things done - Lifehack.org
A list of your short- and long-term goals can be a great motivator, as well as a trigger list to help generate new projects. I also like to have a list of areas of focus, the different roles that I play, each of which comes with a different set of tasks and goals.
Remember The 80/20 Rule
Remember that 80% of the result comes from 20% of your time, work, or activities, and that 80% could be good enough for many tasks by focusing on the essential 20% of your efforts and activities.
16 Things I wish they had taught me in school - Positivity Blog
This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule - also known as The Pareto Principle - basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop - or vastly decrease the time you spend on - a whole bunch of things.
Simplify To The Essentials
"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee’s top 7 fundamentals for getting your life in shape - Positivity Blog
If you want to improve your life then it’s tempting to want to add more. One problem with this may be that you don’t really have the time or energy to do more though. And so your efforts to improve become short-lived. Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety. Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do. And as the clutter in your outer world decreases the clutter in your inner world also has a tendency to decrease. This has the added benefit of making it easier to actually enjoy whatever you are doing even more while you are doing it.
Follow Your Own Dreams
Live your life by being true to yourself and following your own dreams and desires.
Top 5 regrets of the dying - Huffington Post
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.