Mark

“These were the last words of advice Vonnegut wrote to be delivered to an audience: “And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop being so serious. Jokes help a lot. And get a dog, if you don’t already have one.… I’m out of here.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

“This is what it’s like to struggle with our thoughts and feelings: we invest massive amounts of time and energy in trying hard to push them away. This is tiring, draining, and distracting. And because so much of our attention is invested in this internal struggle, it’s very hard to be present, to focus on or engage in what we’re doing,”
― Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living

“Feeling guilty because you “failed to think positively enough,” “didn’t have enough faith,” or didn’t reach some “ideal” is damaging to your psyche and your physical body.”
― Caroline Leaf, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess: 5 Simple, Scientifically Proven Steps to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Toxic Thinking

“Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.”
― John McPhee, Basin and Range