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Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration

Robert C Slayton - Follow me on my journey, daily inspirational quotes with occasional snippets on how I"m imperfectly living my life.

My personal Substack showing my journey from feeling hallow like something was missing, pain and grief to passion, purpose, and peace of mind. Short videos are uplifting quotes each day. Longer form videos are on my ruminations. I do include some voice overs of articles I write. rslayton.substack.com

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0:33

Quote about living your life as an exclamation

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/11

Anonymous: Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.Live it.Have fun.Do great things.Here's the thing. If you start living your life and doing something that you've never done before and it all goes south, you know what you have?A great story.Trust me on this.I have plenty of great stories.What are your thoughts?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd

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1:10

American Indian proverb

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/10

Here’s an American Indian proverb.Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.This describes social media, right?The people who are spouting stuff aren't listening, are they? They're just saying what they think versus doing research and understanding what other people are saying.I found this in the dating world.I recently went on the Facebook dating app just to play with it. I've never been on a dating app before. And the number of women who say anybody who voted for Trump or likes Trump or anything

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0:45

Quote by Sir Francis Bacon

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/09

Quote by Sir Francis Bacon.Realize this is older language as he was born in 1561.There is wisdom in this beyond the roles of the physic. A man's own observation,what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.I believe that.If you feel good, you're going to be healthier.If you're always bad and resentful, they say resentment from the metaphysical perspective causes cancer and a bunch of other ills.How about you?What are your thoughts?Robert’s Substack is a

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Quote from Marge Piercy

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/08

Quote from Marge PiercyLife is the first gift.Love is the second.Understanding the third.Do you agree?Is there another thing in there that we should put in?Let me know.Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rslayton.substack.com/subscribe

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0:44

Quote by Charles Schwab

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/07

Quote by Charles SchwabI've yet to find the man, however exalted in his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under the spirit of approval than under the spirit of criticism.Think about it, when we train dogs, do we harass them? No, we give them treats to really correct them. And what do we do with our kids? Do we support them and give them approbation? But when they screw up, what do we do?We punish them.Think about that.Carrot/stick.Or should we just do carrots?It's

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2:31

Well, I didn't expect to get such a big response from...

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/07

Written 8/6/2025.As you probably know, I have been posting a quote a day around 7 am -5GMT time. These are cross posted across other social media platforms. The following quote got a lot of responses and interest. It was a quote from Sylvain of Athos. He was a Russian Monk.“For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church.”This quote encapsulates what I’ve thought of a lot in the past. When you reach a point in your life beyond praying continuously where prayers stop because you are

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0:43

Quote by Albert Einstein

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/06

Quote by Albert EinsteinGreat spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.I look at this as kind of like the trolls of the internet, TikTok, and all the social media platforms, right?So, you're out there, you are kind of trying to do things, you're having fun, you're creating content.And then you have this person, you know, troll you, say bad things, say things that you don't like.So, yeah, it happens more today than I think it ever has because it's more public.How about

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2:33

In the end, I'm just looking for someone to make me a...

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/06

Written 8/4/2025.As you know, I’m on the Facebook dating app along with getting out into the real world hoping to find that person who elevates me and where I elevate her.Sometimes it comes down to whether she’d make me a sandwich.Let me explain.I was at a party chatting with an older gentleman who was talking about his love life. He was engaged and told me the final part that showed him that the person he was dating was right the right one was that she made him a sandwich.He had been engaged to a

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0:27

Quote from Sylvain of Athos.

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/05

Quote from Sylvain of Athos.For the man who prays in his heart, the whole world is a church.So, I think about this. Some people just only pray in church. Some people only pray at night. But for those people who pray all the time, to whomever they choose, everywhere is holy.What are your thoughts?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other

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2:33

What to do with Trolls on TikTok

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/05

Written 8/3/2025.Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I’ve been playing around with all the social media platforms, TikTok included. I get the most engagement from TikTok vs Substack actually. With engagement come the trolls. Those people who make disparaging comments.I’m okay with them because I use a technique called “follow the energy.” This simply means not disputing, not fighting back, but

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0:31

Quote by Samuel Butler

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/04

Quote by Samuel Butler.Friendship is like money. It's easier made than kept.What do you do to really keep your friendships going?Do you go out on a weekly basis?Do you phone them?I have a friend who moved to Florida.I don't really see him very often, but we do call.And it's important for me to call him and he to call me so that we can continue our friendship.Thoughts?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid

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0:24

Quote by Anna Quinlan

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/03

Quote by Anna Quinlan: We are defined by the people we've lost.For me, that would be my grandmother.She was always supportive, always there for me.And I still think about her often, but she and her attitude really kind of defined how I do my attitude too.What are your thoughts?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get

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0:22

Quote from Charles Lindberg

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/02

Quote from Charles Lindberg: Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.Is there something that you've been so in the middle of that a little bit later when you look back, it was different than what your first thought it was?Drop a comment.Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss

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0:10

Quote from George Carlin

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/08/01

Quote from George Carlin: You ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rslayton.substack.com/subscribe

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Quote from Alexander Wolcott

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/07/31

Quote from Alexander Wolcott: There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.Think about it.That's what I'm going to have to reflect on.What are your thoughts?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rslayton.substack.com/subscribe

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Quote from Steven Wright

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/07/30

Quote from Steven Wright: Plan to be spontaneous … tomorrow.Question: Do you ever get caught in the loop of trying to plan spontaneity?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rslayton.substack.com/subscribe

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Quote from Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/07/29

Quote from Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay: How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception.Question: Are there times in life where you felt like you're an exception?I know I have. It's like you're in a room full of people and you're all alone.What are your thoughts?How do you handle it?Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this

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0:49

Quote from Oprah Winfrey

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/07/28

Quote from Oprah Winfrey: You have to move up to another level of thinking, which is true for me and everybody else. Everybody has to learn to think differently, bigger, to be open to possibilities.For me, one thing I've been taught is your income reflects the size of the problems you can solve and the only way you can solve a problem is by growing and being a bigger person. So that huge problem you saw early in your life, because you've grown personally and interpersonally, it now looks smaller

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Quote by Augustus Caesar

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/07/27

Quote by Augustus Caesar: What is done well is done quickly enough.Question: What are the things that you took extra time on and did them right and they've lasted for a long time?Let me know.Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rslayton.substack.com/subscribe

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0:49

Quote by Hans Margolius

Robert C Slayton - Grief to Joy and Inspiration ·

2025/07/26

Quote by Hans Margolius: Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.Commentary: With everything going on, especially in the United States, and abroad too, actually in the Middle East, are your thoughts scattered? Do you have a silent mind? How can we really think through what's going on?I don't have an answer for that.If you do, let me know.No right- or left-wing politics, please.Robert’s Substack is a reader-supported

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