IKIGAI

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The magical overlap where what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for all come together – it’s the recipe for a life that is truly meaningful.

Too Few Actions

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We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. ~ Abigail Adams

FLÂNEUR

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Noun /flä-ˈnər/ Someone who walks around not doing anything in particular but watching people and society.

FREUDENFREUDE

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FREUDENFREUDE noun / FROI-dən-/fró-duh / The bliss we feel when someone else succeeds, even if we weren’t directly involved.

Made And Remade

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I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. ~ Virginia Woolf

Where My Books Go

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All the words that I utter, And all the words that I write,

Must spread out their wings untiring,

And never rest in their flight,

Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,

And sing to you in the night,

Beyond where the waters are moving,

Storm-darkened or starry bright.

~ W. B. Yeats

1,700 Words

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William Shakespeare is credited with the invention or introduction of over 1,700 words that are still used in English today.

A Single Deed

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A thousand words leave not the same impression as does a single deed. ~ Henrik Ibsen