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To trust in the process.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
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Harlan Coben
American author
We are too often advised to live life to the fullest. That’s too much pressure. The key is to find joy and poignancy in the quiet and mundane. Life is lived between the so-called big moments.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and writer
And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the supernatural or spiritual, but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life — achieving a sense of peace within oneself. I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one’s life as well, when one can feel that one’s work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.
Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.
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A sense of home.
I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
Less phone use.
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
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