Ahoj! Welcome to this week's Teddygram. This is a very special, shorter "Quotes" edition, because I am in Israel for an extended vacation and off the grid (this week and next week). Enjoy :D


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• TD Digest #65: "I love my computer | For all you give to me | Predictable errors and no identity | And it's never been quite so easy | I've never been quite so happy | All I need to do is click on you | And we'll be joined | In the most soul-less way | And we'll never | Ever ruin each other's day | 'cause when I'm through I just click | And you just go away" ~ Bad Religion
   
• TD Digest #64: "The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life." ~ Dr. Viktor Frankl
   
• TD Digest #63: "The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust—and those elements are universally accessible." ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
   
• TD Digest #62: "Commonsense at its worst is sense made common, and so everything is comfortably cheapened by its touch." ~ Vladimir Nabokov
   
• TD Digest #61: "Beautiful nature is beautiful for men and women because it strips our life to essentials, reflects us, dismisses us, and smashes our idols and objets d’art." ~ Mark Greif
   
• TD Digest #60: "Yet if you want to go deeply into any subject, you need a lot of time, and in particular you need the privilege of wasting time. You need to experiment with unproductive paths, explore dead ends, make space for doubts and boredom, and allow little seeds of insight to slowly grow and blossom. If you cannot afford to waste time, you will never find the truth." ~ Yuval Noah Harari
   
• TD Digest #59: "You will always feel fear, but over time you will realize the only way to truly manage your fear is to broaden your comfort zone.'' ~ Alex Honnold
   
• TD Digest #58: "We know virtually nothing about ourselves because we judge ourselves before we have a chance to see ourselves." ~ Adam Phillips
   
• TD Digest #57: "You know a wise man once said nothin' at all" ~ Drake
   
• TD Digest #56: "Never seizing the initiative, and always being reactive, is a way to ensure that long-term, you are I-lose-you-win mode, or worse, I-lose-you-lose mode, when a little initiative could have brought your unique strengths into play, creating more wins for everybody." ~ Venkatesh Rao
   
• TD Digest #55: "...[W]hen learning of our differences with fellow citizens, the open-minded and intellectually humble person is willing to consider changing his or her mind." ~ Klemens Kappel
   
• TD Digest #54: "In a way that we rarely appreciate, the demands of excellence are at war with what we call freedom. For to permit yourself to do only that which you are good at is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment." ~ Tim Wu
   
• TD Digest #53: "You can get what you want out of life if you can open-mindedly reflect, with the help of others, on what is standing in your way and then deal with it." ~ Ray Dalio
   
• TD Digest #52: "...the only thing there is to get from life is the growth that comes from experiencing it." ~ Michael Singer
   
• TD Digest #51: "What can happen to high achieving people, people who use external structures to create a sense of love, safety, and belonging, fueled by a harshly critical voice... We can turn everything into a mechanism for getting an A. Including something as profoundly releasing as a meditation session. We can use something as profoundly important as our focus on our self development... Am I developing fast enough? Am I getting an A in vulnerability and authenticity?" ~ Jerry Colonna
   
• TD Digest #50: “Give more. Give what you didn’t get. Love more. Drop the old story.” ~ Garry Shandling
   
• TD Digest #49: "Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain." ~ Tara Brach
   
• TD Digest #48: "You don’t truly know if you can do something until you have tried absolutely everything." ~ Rob Jones
   
• TD Digest #47: "Too much information increases confidence not accuracy." ~ Shane Parrish
   
• TD Digest #46: "If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will." ~ Greg McKeown
   
• TD Digest #45: "...heartbreak may be the very essence of being human, of being on the journey from here to there, and of coming to care deeply for what we find along the way." ~ David Whyte
   
• TD Digest #44: "Let the hindsight of your future self become the foresight of today's self." ~ Shane Parrish
   
• TD Digest #43: "...beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living within that way of life." ~ Hunter S. Thompson
   
• TD Digest #42: "This first epiphany is about humility. Humility is by definition a starting point—and it sends you off on a journey from there. The arrogance of certainty is both a starting point and an ending point—no journeys needed. That’s why it’s so important that we begin with 'I don’t know shit.'" ~ Tim Urban
   
• TD Digest #41: "A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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