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1. The Barefoot Manifesto
grow your business, travel the world and have fun along the way
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2. “What counts most is heart”
- Okinawan proverb
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3. one minute I was blowing out the candles on my birthday cake
the next I was 40 years old with a family and mortgage
did I miss something?
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4. “Life moves pretty fast
if you don’t stop to look around once in a while
you could miss it”
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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5. life isn’t a rehearsal
there are no rewards for finishing fastest or first
there are no medals for suffering the most
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6. “The trouble is, you
think you have time”
- Jack Kornfield
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7. “Mr. Franz, I think careers
are a 20th century invention
and I don’t want one”
- Into the Wild
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8. I want to be there
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9. friends call it a “mid-life crisis”
I say, “long live the crisis”
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10. God damn it, an entire generation
pumping gas, waiting tables — slaves
with white collars. Advertising has
us chasing cars and clothes, working
jobs we hate so we can buy shit we
don’t need. We’re
the
middle children of
history, man. No purpose or
place. We have no Great War. No
Great Depression. Our great war is
a spiritual war. Our great
depression is our lives. We’ve all
been raised on television to believe
that one day we’d all be
millionaires, and movie gods, and
rock stars, but we won’t. We’re
slowly learning that fact.
And we’re very, very pissed off.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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11. “By parading a stream of other people’s
lives in front of us screens remove the
responsibility to create our own lives. We
watch other people doing things instead
of doing them ourselves. This makes us
radically powerless and powerlessness
leads to anxiety”
- Tom Hodgkinson, How to be Free
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12. “It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin,
barefoot irreverence to their studies; they
are not
here to worship what is known, but to
question it.”
- Jacob Bronowski
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13. Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations,
ambitions for the future, in regrets, guilt or shame about the
past. To come into the present is to stop the war
- Jack Kornfield
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14. “If you avoid consuming the products of the system, then you will not have to pay for those products.
This way, you will save not only the money that you used to spend on umpteen services, you will also
save on the time and mental hassle spent dealing with all those bills. The oppression will gradually depart
from your doorstep. And you won’t have to work so hard. Life will become cheaper and easier. ”
- Tom Hodgkinson “How to Be Idle”
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15. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath
of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It
was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser
than a book. For
a moment she
rediscovered the purpose of her life.
She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild
enchantment and to call each thing by its right name.
- Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
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16. “Hear me! In our future lives it
will be hard to
regain this precious human state with all its
privileges and freedoms. The moment of our death is
impossible to predict. Who can say? Perhaps we will die
tonight”
-Shabkar
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17. “If I had my life to live over, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax, I would limber up. I
would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more
chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less
beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.”
“You see, I’m one of those people who lived sensibly and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I’ve
had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing
else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I’ve been one of
those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a
parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.”
“If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I
would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.”
- Nadine Stair
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18. “I read somewhere... how important it is in life not
necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to
measure yourself at least once.”
- Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild
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19. “Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is
beautiful, noble, religious and mystical is to be happy.”
- Arnaud Desjardins
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20. “Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into
idleness but on the contrary, getting rid of the most
subtle aspects of laziness: the one which makes us take
on thousands of less important activities”
- Matthieu Ricard
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21. Be special because you care, because you want to make a
difference, because you are willing to be happy. And to be special
means being weird, not always following the manual, not always
working so hard to fit in.
- Seth Godin
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22. “If you want to know who your real friends are, start telling
your craziest idea to everyone you meet. Some people will
slowly back away from you as if you really are crazy, but
others will latch on to your idea and help you any way they
can. The people in the second group are your real friends.”
Chris Guillebeau - The Art of Non Conformity
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23. “If you want something in life, just reach out and grab it”
Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild
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