Per Nissilä

“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

“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

“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

“how deeply uncomfortable we are made by feelings of uncertainty. Faced with the anxiety of not knowing what the future holds, we invest ever more fiercely in our preferred vision of that future – not because it will help us achieve it, but because it helps rid us of feelings of uncertainty in the present.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking