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"The first thirty or forty pages was like running through a hailstorm. Made me confused af, did a couple dozen google search of random words that wasn't looking like a real word (mostly it wasn't). But yeah, now it's better. Let's see where it goes." — Jan 09, 2024 09:15AM
"The first thirty or forty pages was like running through a hailstorm. Made me confused af, did a couple dozen google search of random words that wasn't looking like a real word (mostly it wasn't). But yeah, now it's better. Let's see where it goes." — Jan 09, 2024 09:15AM
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""And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference." XD" — Feb 26, 2023 06:49AM
""And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference." XD" — Feb 26, 2023 06:49AM
The emphasis is on deciding. And that’s what this book is about: With practice, you can get better at controlling your thoughts, so you can decide what you think.
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
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“It’s a paradox: Life is beautiful, dying less so, yet it’s death that makes life more beautiful, or at least special.”
― The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen
― The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.”
― The Prophet
― The Prophet
“The phenomenon of burnout has given rise to a multimillion-dollar industry of self-help to counter its negative effects. Vinkers takes a more skeptical view and believes that simple life lessons like “Spend more time doing nothing” are not very effective. He and the philosopher Jeroen de Ridder wrote that “[self-help] tips, however well-intentioned, are useless: You wouldn’t tell a soldier suffering from PTSD to eat more healthily or a single mother in a poor neighborhood to find a hobby.” We are all different, living different lives, and we have different responses to stressful problems. There is no ready-made solution. That’s why we’re drowning in self-help books.”
― The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen
― The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen
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