But tasting is one thing and swallowing is another, especially when, having only tasted, one proceeds to identify the thing tasted with something else which it seems to resemble.
“So, in dealing with fear, you need to first use your faculty of reasoning and try to discover whether there is a valid basis for your fear or not.”
― The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
― The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
“Then, I try to remind myself as far as my own motivation is concerned, I am sincere, and I tried my best.”
― The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
― The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
“ten seconds.”
― Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
― Hyperfocus: How to Work Less to Achieve More
“remember that he was more surprised than anyone when he made the acquaintance of the young man, who interested him extremely, and with whom he sometimes argued and not without an inner pang compared himself in acquirements.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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