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big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame
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This is choice paralysis. Previous generations didn’t have many options so they stuck together through hard times and made it work. Now, abundance (or its illusion) has led people to feel less satisfied. People are now more anxious about making a choice and less certain that the one they made was correct.
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"You know, they say when you love what you do, it's not work. But, I think, when you really love what you do, it's great work."
—Yo-Yo Ma
@ Hollywood Bowl, Goat Rodeo Sessions Tour
August 25, 2013
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We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living. Sometimes, it felt as if you might be walking down Brattle
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“When you have children, you’ll never be able to worry about a friend as much again,” Dov said.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
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Cecilia Callas on Substack
substack.com
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“Like every other woman in the world who has ever been told to calm down, Rachel had no idea how to behave.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble Quotes by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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It was all such an insult, the Hamptons. It was an insult to economic disparity. It was an insult to leading a good life and asking hard questions about what one should sacrifice in the name of decency. It was an insult to having enough—to knowing that there was such a thing as enough. Inside those houses weren’t altruistic, good people whom fortun
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