Taylor Levesque

“The right to the pursuit of happiness, originally envisaged as a restraint on state power, has imperceptibly morphed into the right to happiness – as if human beings have a natural right to be happy, and anything which makes us dissatisfied is a violation of our basic human rights, so the state should do something about it.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“If only my heart were stone.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road