Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
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Knowing that each day I have lived wisely and loved well.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 April 2022 source ↗
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Yogi Berra
Baseball catcher and manager; ten-time World Series winner with the New York Yankees
To relax without being bothered.
Everybody around me is happy, my spirit is right, and just nothing but peace and tranquility in the building.
George Saunders
Short-story writer and novelist
Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
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Not doing the above.
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