Ryan McAnnally-Linz
39 thoughts in this book draw on Ryan McAnnally-Linz.
Books & sources
- Life Worth Living: a Guide to What Mattesr Most · 39 thoughts
The thoughts
- And why would we possibly want to feel anything…
- Don't try to change yourself
- Happiness and unhappi-ness are sisters, even twins that grow…
- Imagine you're walking to work one morning
- Implicit in these experiences was a fundamental, hard-to-articulate question
- Rather, the goal is to become the kind of…
- Remember, the goal is (a) to cultivate an awareness…
- Some of us are perfectionists
- Some of us are perfectionists
- Third, get comfortable with being unsure
- Third, get comfortable with being unsure
- This is what we're after when we really, seriously…
- This is what we're after when we really, seriously…
- This is why Confucius affirms, "One who knows it…
- To live is the rarest thing in the world
- To what may one whose wisdom exceeds his deeds…
- We feel like we're doing what's right
- Well, whose virtue should you try to promote?
- A Life Worth Living student at Yale once came…
- A man who respects his parents and his elders…
- But for Confucius, ritual is much more expansive than…
- But for Confucius, ritual is much more expansive than…
- But on the whole, our hunch is that you…
- Confession and restitution look backward in order to make…
- Happiness and unhappiness are sisters, even twins that grow…
- Imagine you're walking to work one morning
- Implicit in these experiences was a fundamental, hard-to-articulate question
- It takes advantage of the dull ache inside us…
- Look to the true good and take joy only…
- So Nietzsche concluded, "In order for there to be…
- Taking note of the patterns that produce suffering allows…
- There's much more to surviving the storm than having…
- These days, there are plenty of reasons to doubt…
- These days, there are plenty of reasons to doubt…
- This is why Confucius affirms, "One who knows it…
- To what may one whose wisdom exceeds his deeds…
- What are your greatest hopes for yourself?
- What can you rely on to keep you from…
- Wilde never says that sorrow is pleasant