Keith Olson

“Gotta remember that in the Dark Ages, people were getting married at age 7 and had to farm turnips or dig coal or kill dragons or something along those lines. Fast-forward to the industrial revolution and you had 14-year-old coal miners working a full shift and getting black lung. Yet my generation thinks we’re tougher because we rode bikes without helmets. FOH.”
― Desus, God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle. Some things are within your control. And some things are not. Epictetus,”
― Robert Waldinger, The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

“If the ultimate proof of God is existence itself—which many claim to be the case—then a true state of grace may mean dwelling so fully and completely in her present moment that you are still reading your books and singing your songs when the guards come for you at dawn. The past and the future have no tangible reality in our universe; God’s creation exists moment by moment or not at all, and our only chance at immortality might lie in experiencing each of those moments as the stunning extravagance they actually are.”
― Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife