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“The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.”
― A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
― A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
“..."Dont marry an orange and expect him to turn into an apple." If you want an orange, great. If not, put him back in the proverbial fruit bowl for someone else to enjoy and move on.”
― Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
― Letting Go of Perfect: Women, Expectations, and Authenticity
“They had so much and she had... well, she had herself, she supposed. That was all anyone was guaranteed in life.”
― Fall For You
― Fall For You
“People are stupid. Why are they so stupid? There is an algorithm for the way humans were designed: love and be loved. Follow it and
you’re happy. Fight against it and you’re not. It’s so simple, it’s hard to understand.”
― Once Upon a Time, There Was You
you’re happy. Fight against it and you’re not. It’s so simple, it’s hard to understand.”
― Once Upon a Time, There Was You
“Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. You're sizing people up to see if they're worth your time and attention, and they're doing the same to you. It's meritocracy applied to personal life, but there's no accountability. We submit ourselves to these intimate inspections and simultaneously inflict them on others and try to keep our psyches intact - to keep from becoming cold and callous - and we hope that at the end of it we wind up happier than our grandparents, who didn't spend this vast period of their lives, these prime years, so thoroughly alone, coldly and explicitly anatomized again and again.”
― The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
― The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
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