Label Lost

“To give something up is to seek one’s own assumed advantage, one’s apparently preferred pleasure, but in an economy that we mostly can’t comprehend, or, like all economies, predict.”
― Adam Phillips, On Giving Up

“The common belief in Hungary is that an optimistic person is simply uninformed. Or misinformed.”
― Angela Kiss, How to be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English

“The idea that life has an aim, or that happiness is what we want, may be simply a way of narrowing one’s mind, of oversimplifying oneself.”
― Adam Phillips, On Giving Up

“As my friend Harry Anderson says, “It’s important to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
― Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart