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“Where you hadn’t yet dealt with your shadows, you manifested shadowy situations. Broken parts of you encountered broken parts of others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections

“Why do we own so many things when we don’t need them? What is their purpose? I think the answer is quite clear: We’re desperate to convey our own worth, our own value to others. We use objects to tell people just how valuable we are.”
― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

“the accumulation of small achievements is the only way to do something incredible.”
― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

“The things you own end up owning you.” A”
― Fumio Sasaki, Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”
― David Cain

“Believe your pain.’ This awful bear hug is no mistake. Nothing that disturbs you is. Remember all along that there is no embrace in this world that won’t finally unclasp.”
― Joseph Brodsky, On Grief And Reason: Essays

“Ask for money and get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice.”
― Mr. Worldwide Pitbull

“Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn