It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every … - Joe De Sena

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Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

Joe De Sena

It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.

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Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.

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The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.

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It cannot be considered success unless you are smiling.

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Put one foot in front of the other, focus on the little goal right in front of you, and almost anything is possible.

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The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.

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I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

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David Niven

If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.

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Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.

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