Cellophane Renaissance

“Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there—life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.” Pay”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“REMEMBER THAT A CLEAR “NO” CAN BE MORE GRACEFUL THAN A VAGUE OR NONCOMMITTAL “YES”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - The Two-Million-Copy Bestseller

“Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.”
― Daniel H. Pink, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

“Painting saved me, but I can’t say I loved painting. I painted because I needed to. What I really loved, what I love, is having-painted. That was the high. Making something that would never have existed in the entirety of humanity had I not been there at that specific moment to make it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!