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Scott Hughes

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Full-time dad, bestselling author, and creator of

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Scott Hughes
3 years
If you support peace and oppose all non-defensive violence (e.g. murder, rape, slavery, etc.), retweet this, and I will follow you. 🙂 I am always happy to be connected with fellow peace lovers.
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My boy!
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3 years
"I believe there is a force of unbelievable love and goodness deep within you, and that force is you more than anything is you. It's like a beautiful light trying to work its way out of you, and shine through your art or shine through your..." Read more:
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8 years
Want to earn $$$ rewards by doing one book-related retweet a day? Step 1 - Make sure you follow me Step 2 - Retweet this I'll DM you.
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8 years
Want to earn free Amazon Gift Cards just by doing one retweet a day? Step 1 - Make sure you follow me Step 2 - Retweet this I'll DM you.
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2 years
$100 BLACK FRIDAY GIVEAWAY CONTEST Describe in a single tweet as a reply to this tweet. I'll pick my favorite description next week, and give that person $100 (via PayPal). To be eligible to win, you have to retweet this tweet too--give others a chance!
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2 years
If you loved "In It Together", then OnlineBookClub will give you a free hardcover copy of the 2nd edition. OnlineBookClub has over three million members so these 1,000 free copies will go fast. Claim a free copy now with the link below: ^Claim one now!
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October 26th is MY BIRTHDAY!!! In honor of the day my mom gave birth to me, I created a fundraiser for @metavivor :
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"I hope through this experience we become more like little children. Innocent. Loving. Forgiving. Brave. Joyous. Playful. We fall down, and we get back up. We make mistakes, we learn, we say sorry, we grow and let it go." Read more:
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2 years
EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!! I have just finished setting up this Poetry & Art Contest. Entry is free. There are over $10,000 in cash prizes. View the details at: Please share with any and all writers and artists you know so they have a chance to win big!
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8 years
Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card! Free to play! Win double if you sign up at (free and easy).
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7 years
The author of the popular song "Amazing Grace" was a vulgar slave trader turned abolitionist. #Redemption #Forgiveness #Love #Unity
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6 years
@mlanger Hence the "If you don't like reading books, this is NOT for you."
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7 years
Pictures from my election as a VP on the state-wide Connecticut PTA. #PTAProud @CTPTA1 @NationalPTA
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7 years
"Your unique struggle can become the source of your unique and thus exceptional strength." Please read & please RT
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5 years
I keep looking at the calendar that I share with my kids, and seeing "Dad's Birthday" and thinking, "What?! It's not my dad's birthday!" Then I remember I'm Dad and remember it's my birthday.
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2 years
You can't go wrong by cherishing every moment, every hug, every sunset, every laugh, and every dance like it's the last. Even if it turns out to be the second to last, or third to last, or 100th to last, you will still be so happy you fully cherished it as if it was the last.
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7 years
LOCAL NEWS TIP Manchester, CT Kickstarter with amazing and FAST results @WFSBnews @nbcconnecticut @FOX61News @wtnh
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4 years
Life is too short and death is too inevitable to live without integrity. Be yourself, your true honest self. Let your spirit be free. In other words, be free-spirited. #Integrity #FreeSpirit #Epictetus #Stoicism #Philosophy
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2 years
The most valuable things can't be stored in a box, or buried in your backyard, or deposited in a bank. The most valuable things can't be sold for cash. They are found in the infinite depths of a moment, the love radiating from a single hug, the uniqueness of a single dance.
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3 years
I love all people unconditionally. I love the rich, and I love the poor. I love the healthy, and I love the sick. I love non-human animals too, like dogs, cats, birds, and bees. To me, they are all my comrades. To me, you too are my comrade, and really myself in disguise.
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3 years
Your ego is mortal. You are not your ego. Your body is mortal. You are not your body. You are the essence, not the form, not the human form, not any form. You are not the clothes, the car, the house, the body, the brain, the memory, the title, the job, the bank account.
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3 years
"Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you."
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2 years
"I have no special talents; I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein
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2 years
"If you're the smartest person in the room, find another room."
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8 years
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." Malcolm S. Forbes #ThoughtOfTheDay #Forbes
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7 years
If you're in something--music, writing, sports, etc.--for the money and fame, you will probably fail. Passion is more powerful than greed.
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2 years
"If one truly loves nature, one finds beauty everywhere." - Vincent Van Gogh #Art #Nature #Universe #Love #BeautyEverywhere
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4 years
10 years ago I became a father. How has a whole decade already gone by? Happy Birthday, Tristen!!!
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7 years
FRIENDS, We ALL make mistakes, and we ALL stumble. You have greatness in you!
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2 years
#MarcusAurelius #Stoicism #Philosophy "Receive without pride. Let go without attachment."
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2 years
What do you think he's thinking about?
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7 years
What bothers us most about others reveals more about us than them. So be kind.
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4 years
Denial and deceit waste incredible brainpower. They are a heavy burden. Quiet your mind, speak only truth, and free yourself of this burden. The truth usually speaks for itself anyway. A liar cannot merely let the truth speak for itself but must speak over it.
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2 years
In personal relationships, when someone communicates their boundaries to you, it is typically an effort to keep you in their life rather than push you away.
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Scott Hughes
7 years
To me, the goal of human life is not to attain perfection but rather to continually WORK for progress. Work itself is part of the goal.
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3 years
Inside each living human skull, there is an entire universe.
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7 years
Generally speaking, when it comes to your big dreams, success is a choice. It's not easy to choose to truly give 100%. Very few choose to.
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7 years
I find the folks who chase riches tend to be the worst at catching it. Work hard on you and your dreams, and let the money chase you.
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2 years
I consider myself a dreamer, but a dreamer of what can be, not what could have been or what should be. I don't believe in the concept that the past 'could have' been different. I don't believe it the concept of 'could have'. I don't believe in 'shoulds' or 'oughts' either.
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Scott Hughes
6 years
TIME-SENSITIVE DISCOUNT The upcoming March Book of the Month is temporarily discounted to less than $1! The book is The Unbound Soul by @RichardLHaight , bestselling author and renowned instructor of meditation, healing, and martial arts. GET YOURS NOW:
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7 years
From my #BannedBook Available free exclusively at:
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2 years
I just made this! 😎 I didn't put my name on it because the first three paragraphs are a paraphrasing of a meme I've seen around in many forms with slightly different wording. Only the last three paragraphs are my fully original writing. In any case, what do you think?!
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7 years
The lazy person buys a lottery ticket and claims luck determines success. Work harder and luck plays a much smaller role. RT if you agree!
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7 years
#WednesdayWisdom #FreeSpirit FRIENDS, if you don't love your work, you're a slave, if not by law than by spirit. Be free!
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Scott Hughes
6 years
As of just today, now has over 500,000 members! FRIENDS, we are more than halfway to a million! 😀 Thank you so much for your support!!!
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Scott Hughes
7 years
I don't like that a part of our culture is to ask each other upon meeting "what do you do?" and then answer by saying how we make money.
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7 years
On behalf of I donated $21.55 to Children's Cancer Research Fund @childrenscancer Great start to #SundayMorning ! 😎
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2 years
I do not take sides based on skin color, religion, race, ethnicity, or nationality. I am on the side of peace and freedom for all. #InItTogether
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2 years
The comfort zone is a sticky trap. It's a cage, a prison. But it's not our job to push anyone else out of their comfort zone. Generally, it's neither our right nor our prerogative to push others out of their comfort zone. Each of us must choose for ourselves in our present.
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"Just because I carry it well doesn't mean it isn't heavy."
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"Calm is a super power." - Bruce Lee
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3 years
Practice honesty and acceptance, not dishonesty and denial.
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2 years
I wanna meet everyone I wanna get drunk, with the punks And do a bump, with the King I wanna creep down the hall, and go to bed with the Queen And when they come for my head, well I'll be somewhere at sea Singing loud, singing proud It's good to be free - Mikey Mike
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7 years
Idealization is not love. Love requires honesty. All of us are very imperfect. #ThoughtOfTheDay
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2 years
"I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am."
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7 years
FRIENDS, WE DID IT!!! 🤗 The Kickstarter is funded! Check it out and share: Thank you! #kickstarter @kickstarter
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6 years
"If you want something done, ask a busy person." Agree or disagree?
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2 years
I respect and love all, but as a rule of thumb, because my time is limited, and so many want to lead others when they can't lead themselves: I don't take financial advice from poor people. I don't take diet advice from fat people. & I don't take any advice from unhappy people.
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2 years
#ThrowbackThursday to when I couldn't afford curtains so I tied one of my bed sheets over the window, and lived like that, and Amaya and I would dance, which isn't as sweet as it sounds if you know we mostly danced to Eminem back then 😅
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2 years
When you read a good book, you enter the mind, imagination, and indeed the world of another person. Reading transports you through spacetime. You can leap thousands of miles or thousands of years in mere seconds.
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8 years
True leadership requires kindness and personal sacrifice. The effective leader works for those he or she seeks to lead, not vice versa.
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7 years
Success doesn't mean being rich, and being rich doesn't mean one is successful. Money comes at a price. Don't trade success for money.
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5 years
7 years went by so fast! I love you, Amaya! ❤️❤️❤️
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3 years
Whatever it is... If you are afraid, you can do it anyway. If it causes you pain, you can do it anyway. If you wish you had already done it, you can do it anyway. If you feel unmotivated, you can do it anyway. If others say it is wrong, you can do it anyway. You choose now.
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4 years
Merry Christmas!
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2 years
Love isn't sacrificing your own happiness for someone else. Love is being happy to sacrifice.
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4 years
If you love something you don't want to change, control, cage or own it. You will usually kill the butterfly if you try to grasp it. We can all do better--myself included--at learning to let go and admire. Admire what you love. Let it be free. Let it be itself. Just let it be.
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6 years
I don't like small talk, but I love good books and other great art, including good music and comedy. Good books and art really speak to you. Someone might spend 1,000+ hours crafting a book that takes you or I only an hour to read. That's big talk. I like big talk. 🙂
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2 years
When you stop trying to read people's subtext and operate under the assumption there is no problem unless a person explicitly tells you otherwise, it frees you from the mental prison of desperately or anxiously trying to guess and interpret immature people's emotions for them.
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6 years
Jeff Bezos in 1999 FRIENDS, work hard towards your goals every day (whatever those goals are for you). And believe in yourself! Belief + Action = Results!
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"The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art." - Junot Díaz
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8 years
FRIENDS, when times seem dark, remember the light has always been inside of you.
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2 years
"I feel that there's nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people." - Vincent Van Gogh
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"It is not happy people who are thankful. It is thankful people who are happy."
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3 years
EXCITING NEWS!!! I received an email at 4:55am this morning: Our free OnlineBooClub ereading app is now available for iPhone!!! 😀 Here is the link to the free app on the Apple Store: Here is the link for the Play Store:
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Hey, that's me! :)
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BOOK OF THE DAY June 18th Only $2.99: "thought-provoking novella" #Justice #Marriage #FathersDay @scottmhughes
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7 years
FRIENDS, reality is even more than eternal. You are meaningful beyond measure.
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Scott Hughes
4 years
In terms of "do or do not", there are two kinds of mistakes: To not do when you want to do, often called laziness. To do when you want to not do, often called restlessness. Feelings like hunger, pain and fear can urge you to make either mistake. But the choice is always yours.
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