Here is the thesis we’ll be exploring in this book: We, human beings, are a species that’s not only capable of acting on hidden motives—we’re designed to do it. Our brains are built to act in our self-interest while at the same time trying
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“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.”
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Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.”
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“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
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“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.”
― The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
― The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
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