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Be A Help And Not A Hindrance

David Price
4 min readJan 19, 2023

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Achille Casanova — At Night, 1894–1897

Laughter is poison to fear.

― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“In choosing security over growth, we outrage the soul, and the soul outraged, manifests in symptoms — depression, anxiety disorders, envy and jealousy of others, dependencies and many others.”

-from WHAT MATTERS MOST, James Hollis, Phd

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Let love lead. Be genuinely happy for each other. No malice, no backbiting. No jealousy. No comparison. It is not a competition. At the end of the day, we all have the same destiny in the grave. It is just a question of who gets there first, but surely we will all go there.

— Africa Is Home

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Dig deep. Be playful. Have a sense of humor about it. Being curious about something, rather than just triggered by it, is always more rewarding. You will always gain more from a curious experience over a triggered one.

— Gary Z McGee

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The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with those who free you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel.
Today’s life is too hard, too bitter, too anemic, for us to undergo new bondages, from whom we love […]. This is how I am your

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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