People Who are Lucky Make their Own Luck

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People who are lucky make their own luck. And you only make your own luck by staying in the game.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls.

May 28, 2013 0

20 Best Inspirational Speeches from the Movies

Here’s my favorite;

There are 19 more here: 20 Best Inspirational Speeches from the Movies – Lifehack.

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Things Forsaken in Discouragement

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No matter how old you are, where you’re from or what you do for a living, we all share something in common—a desire to be successful.

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May 27, 2013 2

There Are So Many Things

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There are so many things that can make you happy. Don’t focus too much on things that make you sad.

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May 27, 2013 0

55 Ways to Make Peace of Mind Right Now

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Do you need more effective ways to make peace of mind? Most people live so stressed out that they have forgotten what peace of mind feels like.

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May 27, 2013 0

Antifreeze

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Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

This is a wedding picture? #facepalm

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Brain can be trained in compassion, study shows

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A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, investigates whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion.

“Our fundamental question was, ‘Can compassion be trained and learned in adults? Can we become more caring if we practice that mindset?'” says Helen Weng, lead author of the study and a graduate student in clinical psychology. “Our evidence points to yes.”

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May 27, 2013 2

Silence on this Day

Thank you to all the veterans in my life! Regardless of how I feel about war and aggression, I’m still grateful for those who have served so that my family and I can have the freedoms we do…

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I found today’s editorial message in the NY Times to poignantly yet beautifully capture the spirit of today.

“If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the silence at the heart of Memorial Day — the inward turn that thoughts take on a day set aside to honor the men and women who have died in the service of this country.

It is the silence of soldiers who have not yet been, and may never be, able to talk about what they learned in war, the silence of grief so familiar that it feels like a second heartbeat. This is a day for acknowledging, publicly, the private memorial days that lie scattered throughout the year, a day when all the military graves are tended to, even the ones that someone tends to regularly as a way of remembering.

It always seems strange the way the fond, sober gestures of memory…

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