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Reading | darkest hours, there are also reasons to live

Recently watched the British novelist Matt. Hagrid's Reasons to Live, a book that summarizes 40 life tips for coping with anxious moments that may not be followed, but may be useful:

Reading | darkest hours, there are also reasons to live

1. When happiness appears, enjoy the joy.

2. Take a small sip and drink slowly, don't gobble it up.

3. Be gentle with yourself. Work less, rest more.

4. You can't change anything in the past. This is the basic physical principle.

5. Be careful of Tuesdays and October.

6. Kurt Vonnegut was right: "Reading and writing are by far the most nutritious forms of meditation ever discovered by humans." ”

7. Listen more, talk less.

8. Don't feel guilty when you're doing nothing. Perhaps work is more harmful to the world than doing nothing. But it can perfect your idleness and make it aware.

9. Be aware that you are breathing.

10. In any place, at any time, try to discover beauty. A face, a poem, clouds outside the window, graffiti paintings, wind fields. Beauty purifies the mind.

11. Hate is a meaningless emotion. It's like eating a scorpion that stings you.

12. Go out for a run and do some yoga. 13. Take a shower before noon.

14. Look at the sky. Remind yourself how vast the universe is. Seize every opportunity to feel the vastness and distance, which will let you see your own smallness.

15. kindness.

16. Recognize that ideas are just ideas. If it feels like an idea doesn't make sense, just theorize with it, even if you can't find it anymore. You are the observer of your mind, not the victim.

17. Don't watch TV aimlessly. Don't aimlessly go on social networking sites. Be aware of what you're doing and why. Don't ignore tv, you have to pay more attention to it so that you watch less. Unbridled entertainment will distract you.

18. Sit down, lie down, don't move, do nothing. Observe and listen to the voice of your mind. Don't judge what's going on in your head, just let it go, like snow queen in Frozen.

19. Don't be alarmist.

20. Look at the tree, get close to the tree, plant the tree. (Because the trees are great.) )

21. Listen to the yoga instructor on YouTube, "Walk as if you were kissing the earth with your feet." ”

22. Live, love, let go.

23. The mathematics of wine is multiplication. The more you drink, the more you want to drink more. If it's hard to stop at one cup, then it's even more impossible to stop at three cups. Addition is multiplication.

24. Watch out for that gap. The gap between where you are now and where you want to go. Just think about it, and that gap will widen and you may fall into it.

25. Read a book and don't think about finishing it. Just read. Enjoy every word, sentence, paragraph. Don't expect it to end, or never end.

26. At its deepest level, there is no medicine in the universe that makes you feel better than being kind to others.

27. Listen to what Hamlet, the most famous depressed man in literature, said to Rosenkrantz and Gilden stern: "There is no good or evil in the world, there is no thought." ”

28. Allow others to love you. Believe in this love. Live for them, even if you feel pointless.

29. You don't need the world to understand you. It's okay. Some people will never really understand what they haven't experienced, but some will, and be grateful to the people who understand you.

30. Jules Verne wrote "Infinite Life". It is a world of love and emotion as vast as the sea. If we immerse ourselves in it, we will find infinity, find the space we need to survive.

31. Three o'clock in the morning is not a time to try to sort out one's life. 32. Remember: you're not weird at all. You are human, and all your actions and feelings are in accord with nature, because you are an animal in nature. You are nature. You're an ape. You live in this world, and this world lives in your heart. Everything is linked together. 33. Don't believe in what's good or bad, win or lose, win or lose, highs and lows. At your lowest and highest points, whether you are happy or desperate, calm or angry, there is a core "you" that is always the same. This "you" is the most important.

34. Don't worry about the time lost due to despair. After surviving despair, the value of time will be doubled.

35. Be transparent to yourself. Build a glass house for your mind. observe.

36. Read Emily Dickinson, read Graham Green, read Italo Calvino, read Maya Angelo [inset]. Read everything you want to read, just read it. Books are the possibility, the escape route. When you don't have a choice, they give you a chance. For displaced minds, every book is a home.

37. On sunny days, being able to be outdoors is outdoors.

38. Remember: The key to life on Earth is change. Cars rust, pages turn yellow, technology becomes obsolete, caterpillars become butterflies, night becomes day, and depression dissipates.

39. When you feel too busy to take a break, that's when you need to find time to rest the most.

40. Be brave, be strong, breathe, live. You will thank yourself for today.