“Maybe happiness is about what we can give. Maybe happiness is not a butterfly we can catch with a net. Maybe there is no certain way to be happy. Maybe there are only maybes. If (as Emily Dickinson said) “Forever—is composed of Nows—,” maybe the nows are made of maybes. Maybe the point of life is to give up certainty and to embrace life’s beautiful uncertainty”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Living with anxiety, turning up, and doing stuff with anxiety takes a strength most people will never know.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“The whole of consumerism is based on us wanting the next thing rather than the present thing we already have. This is an almost perfect recipe for unhappiness.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“The future isn't real. The future is abstract. The now is all we know. One now after another now. The now is where we must live. There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you. Focus on that.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
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