Timothy Peacock

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
― Marlon Brando

“It is just a lonely certainty that we are right and everybody else wrong, which makes it worthwhile for us busy-bodies to go on making a nuisance of ourselves. Our job is to keep both the simple Philistine and the greedy rich in their places, to prevent them, in their stupidity and avarice, from destroying everything that is left.”
― Auberon Waugh

“Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed, when things eventually happen that he can’t persuade himself to believe are good.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking