Simple happiness
Drivers of happiness
Simple happiness
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
-Anne Lamott
All that we have is that shout into the wind—how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.
-Karnus au Bellona
from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 269
How Much Deep, Light, and REM Sleep Do You Need?
healthline.com
5% awake, 45% core, 25% deep, 25% REM
Hope is what drives humanity, the root of all motivation.
We hope that we find love, people who see and accept us for who we are.
We hope that our future—and the collective future of humanity—is better than it is now (and now and now).
We hope that …
I feel like there’s one more big one… what is it?
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.
-Ayn Rand
Who’s going to stop me? Me
from Brain Food #629
When your primary goal is to be liked, you can’t take risks. You can’t disagree. You can’t push boundaries. You become a prisoner of other people’s expectations.
-Shane Parrish
Care about what others think but don’t let that rule your world
It’s ok to be disliked. It’s ok to disagree. It’s ok to think different.
from Brain Food #645
If something that seems like work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something you're well suited for. For example, a lot of programmers I know, including me, actually like debugging. It's not something people tend to volunteer; one likes it the way one likes popping zits
What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
Once the vessel starts to crack open, the end becomes inevitable … But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time what we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs.
-Quentin Jacobsen
Do the cracks start forming as soon as were born?
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 302