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Top Ten - Top 10 Quotes Against Work - Top 10 - Charles Bukowski Quotes - Factot…: Jun 16, 9:25pm 56 reviews counterculture •http://www.alternativereel.com/includ...; amen!

"It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
--Charles Bukowski, Factotum, Black Sparrow Press, 1975

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May 24, 11:07pm: Mark Twain's
Tips for Living
Published by Henrik Edberg May 16th, 2008 in Relaxation, Personal Development, People Skills, Career & Work and Success.

Mark Twain's Top 9 Tips for Living a Kick-Ass Life"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

Twain is known for his many - and often funny - quotes. Here are a few of my favourite tips from him.

1. Approve of yourself.

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

If you don't approve of yourself, of your behaviour and actions then you'll probably walk around most of the day with a sort of uncomfortable feeling. If you, on the other hand, approve of yourself then you tend to become relaxed and gain inner freedom to do more of what you really want.

This can, in a related way, be a big obstacle in personal growth. You may have all the right tools to grow in some way but you feel an inner resistance. You can't get there.

What you may be bumping into there are success barriers. You are putting up barriers in your own mind of what you may or may not deserve. Or barriers that tell you what you are capable of. They might tell you that you aren't really that kind of person that could this thing that you're attempting.

Or if you make some headway in the direction you want to go you may start to sabotage for yourself. To keep yourself in a place that is familiar for you.

So you need give yourself approval and allow yourself to be who you want to be. Not look for the approval from others. But from yourself. To dissolve that inner barrier or let go of that self-sabotaging tendency. This is no easy task and it can take time.

2. Your limitations may just be in your mind.

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

So many limitations are mostly in our minds. We may for instance think that people will disapprove because we are too tall, too old or balding. But these things mostly matter when you think they matter. Because you become self-conscious and worried about what people may think.

And people pick up on that and may react in negative ways. Or you may interpret anything they do as a negative reaction because you are so fearful of a bad reaction and so focused inward on yourself.

If you, on the other hand, don't mind then people tend to not mind that much either. And if you don't mind then you won't let that part of yourself become a self-imposed roadblock in your life.

It is, for instance, seldom too late to do what you want to do.

3. Lighten up and have some fun.

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Humor and laughter are amazing tools. They can turn any serious situation into something to laugh about. They can lighten the mood just about anywhere.

And a lighter mood is often a better space to work in because now your body and mind isn't filled to the brim with negative emotions. When you are more light-hearted and relaxed then the solution to a situation is often easier to both come up with and implement. Have a look at Lighten Up! for more on this topic.

4. Let go of anger.

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Anger is most of the time pretty pointless. It can cause situations to get out of hand. And from a selfish perspective it often more hurtful for the one being angry then the person s/he's angry at.