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“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” Desire is a driver, a motivator. In fact, a sincere and uncompromising desire, placed above everything else, is nearly always fulfilled. But every judgment, every preference, every setback spawns its own desire and soon we drown in them. Each one a problem
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
One of the paradoxes of life is that the more you desire something, the less suited you can be to have it.
Brett • Sunday Firesides: To Have It, You Must Be Able to Do Without It
"Suppose you do want to acquire a want you haven’t got. The question is, where did the first want—the want for a want—come from? It seems it was just there, just a given, not something you chose or engineered. It was just there, like most of your preferences ... The question just re-arises: Where did that want come from? You certainly can’t go on l... See more
Sloww Sunday: Babies, Metacognition, Developmental Deaths, & More
One of the fundamental choices that you face on Earth is the degree to which you’ll pursue deeper but riskier fulfillment or practice avoidance that exempts you from bad feelings but leaves you bereft of good ones.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
If you’re wondering “what you should do with your life,” it’s likely that you’re in the limbo between realizing you don’t want what you once did, and giving yourself permission to want what you want now.