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both extremes of AA are dangerous and limiting. There are those who live and die by the program and can’t objectively hear any criticism without jumping into a dogmatic slogan-slinging fit. And there are people on the other extreme, who ...more
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Oliver Burkeman
“But the deeper truth remains: many of us are perpetually preoccupied with plans. It”
Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Oliver Burkeman
“Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.”
Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Oliver Burkeman
“perfectionism, at bottom, is a fear-driven striving to avoid the experience of failure at all costs. At its extremes, it is an exhausting and permanently stressful way to live.”
Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Oliver Burkeman
“One of the more distasteful aspects of positive thinking – and of conventional approaches to happiness in general – is the way in which they seem to encourage self-absorption. Then again, ‘selfless’ approaches to happiness”
Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Neil Gaiman
“You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the waterhole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades. And I said to him, ‘Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I’ll look after your balls for you.”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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