When I was in college I read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novels by Doulgas Adams, or as they are often referred to, “a trilogy in five parts”. I didn’t realize it at the time, but everything I needed to know about life, the universe, and everything was somewhere in those books. Granted, I had to sift through a considerable amount of nonsense to get to the good stuff, but then, isn’t that exactly how life works?

Here are ten passages from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that I think make particularly useful life lessons. I hope you’ll find a lot of good stuff here as well.

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This week I’m feeling a little crabby, cranky, cantankerous, and any other word that starts with C and means, “I’m not particularly happy about having to wake up at 4:00 am to manually publish my posts!”

Some of you may have noticed something a little different this week at Quest For Balance. Usually my posts run on a very regular schedule. They get published at 3:30 am, and the email goes out around 5:00 am… just in time for morning coffee. I like it this way; it’s comforting, like the old newspaper delivery schedule. But this week something has broken!

I have NO idea what happened, because I didn’t change anything. One day I woke up and found no new post. I checked “back stage” and it said, Missed Schedule in bright red letters.

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“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” –Norman Vincent Peale

My life is generally very serene and balanced. But my recent ordeal with immigration in Costa Rica, got me thinking about ways to manage stressful situations. So I started looking around the Fellowship of the Blogs to learn how others deal with stress. I usually include five links on Fellowship Fridays, but stress is a BIG deal. Here are ten of my favorite finds:

1. Alex Shalman brings us Anti-Productivity: 30 Ways To Slow Down And Relax Like A Cat.

2. Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits explains Simple Living Simplified: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Simplify Your Life.

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