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Quotes For Letting Go of Stuff® and Simplifying Your Life - Kindle edition by Darren L Johnson. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ www.farmersmarketmusic.com The exercises helped to keep me right on point with my life go Start by marking “Letting Go of Stuff: Powerful Secrets to Simplify Your Life” as Want to Read: Want to Read . Quotes For Letting Go of Stuff® and Simplifying Your Life.
Strewn about like seeds in mother-fucking spring time. And for what purpose? A pat on the fucking back maybe? Indeed, the ability to reserve our fucks for only the most fuckworthy of situations would surely make life a hell of a lot easier. Failure would be less terrifying.
Unpleasant necessities more pleasant and the unsavory shit sandwiches a little bit more savory. I mean, if we could only give a few less fucks, or a few more consciously-directed fucks, then life would feel pretty fucking easy. Ever watch a kid cry his eyes out because his hat is the wrong shade of blue?
Developing the ability to control and manage the fucks you give is the essence of strength and integrity.
We must craft and hone our lack of fuckery over the course of years and decades. Like a fine wine, our fucks must age into a fine vintage, only uncorked and given on the most special fucking occasions.
This may sound easy. But it is not. This is no way to live, man. So stop fucking around. Get your fucks together.
And here, allow me to fucking show you. When most people envision giving no fucks whatsoever, they envision a kind of perfect and serene indifference to everything, a calm that weathers all storms. People who are indifferent are lame and scared.
In fact, indifferent people often attempt to be indifferent because in reality they actually give too many fucks. They are afraid of the world and the repercussions of their own choices.
Therefore, they make none. They hide in a grey emotionless pit of their own making, self-absorbed and self-pitied, perpetually distracting themselves from this unfortunate thing demanding their time and energy called life. My mother was recently screwed out of a large chunk of money by a close friend of hers. Had I been indifferent, I would have shrugged my shoulders, sipped some mocha and downloaded another season of The Wire. But instead, I was indignant. I was pissed off. This illustrates the first subtlety about not giving a fuck.
This is what is so admirable — no, not me, dumbass — the overcoming adversity stuff. The staring failure in the face and shoving your middle finger back at it. The people who just laugh and then do it anyway. They reserve their fucks for what truly fucking matters.
And an occasional lawsuit or two. And because of that, because they reserve their fucks for only the big things, the important things, people give a fuck about them in return. Eric Hoffer once wrote: Think for a second.
Why does this lady give a fuck? Her kids are dickheads and never visit. So she snips coupons.
All day, every day. Not the hand sanitizer.
In life, our fucks must be spent on something. There really is no such thing as not giving a fuck. The question is simply how we each choose to allot our fucks. You only get a limited number of fucks to give over your lifetime, so you must spend them with care. But fuck it, pretend like he did.