The amount of mediocrity in the world can be measured by the extent of the failure to keep resolutions
Excellent people stick to resolutions. Crappy people never make them in the first place.
We mediocre people make them and then give up easily at the first sign of difficulty.
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The central tension we experience is always between our instinctive selves and our aspirational selves.
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The most impressive (and genuinely rare) are those whose natural inclinations render artificial resolutions unnecessary.
Their initial impulse accords with what they would resolve to do.
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“After the great awakening, all vows tinkle like tin bells.” - Ho Chi Zen
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Are theses absolute and mtually exclusive states? Thinking of times when I resolved to a few (not all that I should), followed through on a couple while the majority fizzles away into the realms of mediocrity.





