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It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”—the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in
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“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
― Dust
― Dust
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
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“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
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