Essential Life-Learnings From 14 Years of Brain Pickings
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- Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it becomes mindless, automated, like gravity pulling the stream down its course; until it becomes an inner law of nature. (View Highlight)
title: “Essential Life-Learnings From 14 Years of Brain Pickings”
author: “Maria Popova”
url: ”https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/10/21/14-years-of-brain-pickings/”
date: 2023-12-19
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Essential Life-Learnings From 14 Years of Brain Pickings
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- Choose joy. Choose it like a child chooses the shoe to put on the right foot, the crayon to paint a sky. Choose it at first consciously, effortfully, pressing against the weight of a world heavy with reasons for sorrow, restless with need for action. Feel the sorrow, take the action, but keep pressing the weight of joy against it all, until it becomes mindless, automated, like gravity pulling the stream down its course; until it becomes an inner law of nature. (View Highlight)