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“Buddhists advise us to "act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference." This serious playfulness makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.”
― Eugene T. Gendlin, Focusing

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“It all adds up to normality.”
― Greg Egan

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac