“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.”
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“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“If while washing dishes, we think only of the cup of tea that awaits us, thus hurrying to get the dishes out of the way as if they were a nuisance, then we are not “washing the dishes to wash the dishes.” What’s more, we are not alive during the time we are washing the dishes. In fact we are completely incapable of realizing the miracle of life while standing at the sink. If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.”
― The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
― The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
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