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Stillness Is the Key

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  • Author: Ryan Holiday
  • ASIN: B07MJ3TDCZ
  • ISBN: 1788162056
  • Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MJ3TDCZ
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Highlights

That’s the nice thing about the present. It keeps showing up to give you a second chance. — location: 445 ^ref-50934

Shawn Green knew he had to get rid of the toxic thinking that had knocked him off his game in the first place—the — location: 546 ^ref-46934

Just like the overactive voice in a slump, the voice in a streak is an equally deleterious racing mental loop. — location: 568 ^ref-14682

“cutting free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past,” — location: 586 ^ref-14481

Whatever you face, whatever you’re doing will require, first and foremost, that you don’t defeat yourself. That you don’t make it harder by overthinking, — location: 606 ^ref-33716

Think about what’s important to you.  . . . Think about what’s actually going on.  . . . Think about what might be hidden from view.  . . . Think about what the rest of the chessboard looks like.  . . . Think about what the meaning of life really is. — location: 673 ^ref-58349

an exercise for us to follow: — location: 678 ^ref-31920

Grant wouldn’t have chosen this situation, but he wasn’t going to let it affect his sense of self. — location: 907 ^ref-48420

is an honest understanding of our strengths and weakness that reveals the path to a greater glory: inner peace and a clear mind. — location: 917 ^ref-61682

Both egotistical and insecure people make their flaws central to their identity—either by covering them up or by brooding over them or externalizing them. — location: 935 ^ref-34716

Don’t feed insecurity. Don’t feed delusions of grandeur. Both are obstacles to stillness. Be confident. You’ve earned it. — location: 937 ^ref-35194

“The mind tends toward stillness,” Lao Tzu said, “but is opposed by craving.” — location: 1006 ^ref-30145

there will never be “enough” and that the unchecked pursuit of more ends only in bankruptcy. — location: 1174 ^ref-38246

How much better and less scary life is when we don’t have to see it from the perspective of a scared, vulnerable child? — location: 1307 ^ref-10938

Give more. Give what you didn’t get. Love more. Drop the old story. — location: 1326 ^ref-57752

What do we want more of in life? That’s the question. It’s not accomplishments. It’s not popularity. It’s moments when we feel like we are enough. — location: 1492 ^ref-41176

It is not the sign of a healthy soul to find beauty in superficial things—the adulation of the crowd, fancy cars, enormous estates, glittering awards. Nor to be made miserable by the ugliness of the world—the critics and haters, the suffering of the innocent, injuries, pain and loss. It is better to find beauty in all places and things. Because it does surround us. And will nourish us if we let it. — location: 1538 ^ref-23766

While addiction is undoubtedly a biological disease, it is also, in a more practical sense, a process of becoming obsessed with one’s own self and the primacy of one’s urges and thoughts. — location: 1587 ^ref-31644

We have to beware of desire, but conquer anger, — location: 1826 ^ref-47335