Stacey

“[Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness For People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“The best modules are those that provide powerful functionality yet have simple interfaces. I use the term deep to describe such modules.”
― John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

“A person who has resolved to ‘think positive’ must constantly scan his or her mind for negative thoughts – there’s no other way that the mind could ever gauge its success at the operation – yet that scanning will draw attention to the presence of negative thoughts.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking