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“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”

“1. Fix your attention on yourself, be aware at every moment of what you think, feel, want and do. 2. Always finish what you started. 3. Do what you are doing as best as possible. 4. Do not be chained to anything that in the long run can destroy you. 5. Develop your generosity without witnesses. 6. Treat every person as a close relative. 7. You must order what is disordered. 8. Learn to receive and be grateful for each gift. 9. Stop defining yourself. 10. Do not lie, do not steal, for if you do, you lie and steal from yourself. 11. Help your neighbor without doing making them depend on you. 12. Do not wish to be imitated. 13. Make plans and see them through. 14. Do not take up too much space. 15. Do not make unnecessary noises or gestures. 16. If you do not have faith, act as if you do. 17. Do not be impressed by strong personalities. 18. Do not appropriate anything or anyone. 19. Distributed equally. 20. Do not seduce. 21. You must only eat and sleep as much as is necessary. 22. Do not discuss your personal problems. 23. Do not pass judgments or criticize when you do not know all the facts. 24. Do not have useless friendships. 25. Do not follow fads. 26. Do not sell yourself. 27. Respect the contracts you have signed 28. Be punctual. 29. Do not envy others’ property or goods. 30. Speak only what is necessary. 31. Do not think of the benefits that your work will bring. 32. Never threaten. 33. Follow through with your promises. 34. In an argument, put yourself in the place of the other. 35. Accept when someone is better than you. 36. Do not eliminate, transform. 37. Defeat your fears; each one of them is a desire that is camouflaged. 38. Help the other help themselves. 39. Put an end to your antipathy and get closer to people that you want to reject. 40. Do not react when they speak well or ill of you. 41. Transform your pride into dignity. 42. Turn your anger into creativity. 43. Transform your greed into respect for the beauty. 44. Transform your envy into the admiration for the values of others. 45. Transform your hate into charity. 46. Do not praise nor insult yourself. 47. Treat the things that do not belong to you as if they did. 48. Do not complain. 49. Develop your imagination. 50. Do not give orders for the pleasure of being obeyed. 51. Pay for the services you are given. 52. Do not boast about your work or ideas. 53. Do not try to arouse emotions like pity, admiration, sympathy and complicity in others. 54. Do not try to distinguish yourself by your appearance. 55. Never contradict, just be silent. 56. Do not fall in debt, buy and pay immediately. 57. If you offend someone, ask for forgiveness. 58. If you have offended publicly apologize publicly. 59. If you realize that you have said something wrong, accept your mistake and desist immediately. 60. Do not defend your old ideas simply because it was you who said them. 61. Do not keep useless objects. 62. Do not embellish yourself with the ideas of others. 63. Do not get pictures with celebrities. 64. Be your own judge. 65. Do not let your possessions define you. 66. Never talk about yourself, without allowing yourself the possibility of changing. 67. Accept that nothing is yours. 68. When you are asked what you think about something or someone, mention only their qualities. 69. When you fall ill, instead of hating this evil, consider it your teacher. 70. Do not look surreptitiously, stare steadily. 71. Do not forget the dead, but give them a limited place to prevent them from taking over your life. 72. In the place where you dwell, always consecrate a sacred place. 73. When you do a favor do not make others notice your effort. 74. If you decide to work for others, do it with pleasure 75. If in doubt between doing and not doing, take risks and do. 76. Do not try to be everything to your partner, accept that he must seek in others the things you cannot give him. 77. When someone has an audience, do not disrupt them with the purpose of stealing their audience. 78. Live with the money you have earned. 79. Do not brag about your love affairs. 80. Do not take pride in your weaknesses. 81. Never visit someone just to fill your time. 82. Obtain with the purpose of sharing. 83. If you are meditating and a devil arrives, make the devil meditate.”

“I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.”

The thoughts that you choose, right at this moment, are what fill your life with sustenance. Like a bucket being filled with fresh water, your mind is filling your life with content. It’s not what you see, but how you see it. And it’s up to you to decide.

“Actually, I just woke up one day and decided I didn’t want to feel like that anymore, or ever again. So I changed. Just like that.”

“A beautiful spirit lifts others near it.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”

1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise. 2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable. 3. erase processed food from your diet. start with no lollies, chips, biscuits, then erase pasta, rice, cereal, then bread. use the rule that if a child couldn’t identify what was in it, you don’t eat it. 4. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in garlic, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else. 5. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything. 6. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice. 7. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small. 8. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full. 9. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle. 10. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck. 11. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach if you can, and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. if you have a dog, bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog. 12. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through. 14. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything. 15. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends. 16. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

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