the good life
Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure.
M. Scott Peck • The Road Less Travelled
The deepest human relationships come from accepting the best and worst of one another. The greatest love for a craft comes from discovering all the endless ways to be humbled by it.
Pain comes from events, while suffering comes from the way we handle events—what we do about them and, especially, what we think about them.
Martha Beck • The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Have you heard of the Ikea effect?
In one study, subjects were willing to pay 63% more for furniture they assembled with their own hands than for an identical pre-assembled piece.
We tend to love what we pour effort into.
In one study, subjects were willing to pay 63% more for furniture they assembled with their own hands than for an identical pre-assembled piece.
We tend to love what we pour effort into.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
sanity, in this view, is just compliance that has been culturally sanctioned. it is not a measure of truth, it is a measure of usefulness.
so when you feel like you’re losing it and you can’t keep up or when you spiral when the world feels uninhabitable, it might not be because something is wrong with you. it might be because your body is trying to ... See more
so when you feel like you’re losing it and you can’t keep up or when you spiral when the world feels uninhabitable, it might not be because something is wrong with you. it might be because your body is trying to ... See more