Everything Is Never Enough Quotes

“When Qohelet commends a little quietness over a lot of striving, he is saying that there are limits to what work will give you, so there should be limits to what you give work. If you try to grasp gain with two hands, both will come up empty. There is no contentment without knowing and submitting to limits.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“The modern West's control complex catechizes you to think of yourself as the captain of a vessel cutting a razor-straight course through life's succession of storms. But you're not the captain; you're not even on the boat. In the end, you're a fish in the ship's net.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness