And when does this happen?

People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis', but it's not.

It's an unraveling - a time when you need a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed to live'.

~ Brene' Brown

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Indeed...

 Uh-oh...

~ George Armstrong Custer, Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876

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Commence selective outrage in three, two, one...

Obesity kills 2.8 million per year.

Heart disease kills 17.9 million per year.

Diabetes kills 1.5 million per year.

If governments really cared about your health, they would have banned fast food, refined. sugars, and industrialized seed oils long ago.

But they didn't.

~ found on the internet (so you know it's true)

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Agreed

Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.

~ Brene' Brown

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Interesting...

We can choose courage, or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. 

Not at the same time.

~ Brene' Brown

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What a concept!

Talk to yourself like your would to someone you love
~ Brene' Brown
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I'm right there with you, Jia Ye!

Take hot foot baths.

Got to sleep and wake up early.

Protect your shoulders, hips, and knees.

Think good things.

Look at good things.

Speak good things.

~ Jia Ye, Taoist hermit

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Sounds deep anyways...

The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.

~ Thucydides, the funeral speech for Pericles

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My backpacking mantra…

 If you are tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

~ Banksy

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I often ask the same question…

What the hell was that?

~ Captain Smith, the Titanic, 1912


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I concur...

Santa Claus may have issues with Mrs. Claus, but people don't want to hear about it.

They just want to have Christmas.

~ Patricia to Jackie, in I Love That For You

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How about a creek, or a ditch?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
~ Persian Poet Rumi
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Indeed! But married is married...

Michael to Jim, about Pam: "If you like her so much, don't give up."

Jim: "She's engaged."

Michael: "BFD. Engaged ain't married."

~ The Office, Season 2, Episode 11, Booze Cruise

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Oh, my friend! Been there, done that...

Holly thinks that this relationship is over. I am not going to give up that easy. 

I am going to make this way harder than it needs to be.

~ Michael, in the Office, Season 5, Episode 6, Employee Transfer

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Worth pondering...

Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses.  Second only to the neck.

~ Dwight Shrute, the Office, Season 9, Episode 17, The Farm

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Toby, I often ask the same question!

Why you always gotta be so mean to me?

~ Toby Flenderson, talking to God in the Office, Season 7, Christening

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Oh, Andy!

My ex is meeting my sex. 
Which is always scary, you know? 
And not just because you think they might talk about your penis. That's just part of it.
~ Andy Bernard, Season 8, Episode 10 of the Office, Christmas Wishes
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I've often observed this...

If you are observant enough, people usually tell on themselves.

~ found on the internet


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Herd mentality

What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently.

It is not so much the opinion itself, as the audacity of wanting the think for themselves. Something they do not know how to do.

~ Schopenhauer 

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Garrrrrr, Matey!

I know we wouldn't have chosen each other, not in a million years.

But all we have is this one life, so shouldn't we at least try?

~ Mary Bonnet, to her husband, the Gentleman Pirate, Steve Bonnet, in Our Flag Means Death

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Oof! This hits too close to home...

The saddest tombstone I can think of:

He gave his life to enhance corporate value

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I'm not sure about this...

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than have answers which might be wrong. 

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things. But I'm not absolutely sure about anything.

~ Richard P. Feynman (Physicist)

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My mantra for today...

Before opening one's mouth, ask yourself:

1. Is it true?

2. Is it necessary?

3. Is it kind?

~ Rumi's three gates of speech

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Done is good.

~ mantra of Bryn Mawr students during finals

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True everywhere

Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.  Small acts of kindness and love. 

~ Gandalf, in response to Galadriel, movie version of The Hobbit

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Never pass up an opportunity to hang out with musicians.

~ Life advice

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A phobia protects a person from his own curiosity.

~ Adam Phillips

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A tree that moves some to tears of joy is, in the eyes of others, only a green thing which stands in the way.

~ William Blake

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The answer to the unasked question is always No.

~ Internet wisdom

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Furtive! What a great word!

Never be furtive.  

If you are doing something you don't want other to find out about, it's probably wrong.

~ Internet wisdom

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Good advice

You can always tell someone to go to hell tomorrow.

~ Warren Buffet

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Oh, dear...

Marriage is a 50-year conversation.

Marry someone you want to talk to for the rest of your life.

~ Internet wisdom
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