Craig

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. So they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

The results had been catastrophic so far - suicide, theft, murder, and insanity and so on. But new chemicals were coming onto the market all the time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Never be mean to someone who can hurt you by doing nothing.”
― Chris Voss, Service Operations Dynamics: Managing in an Age of Digitization, Disruption and Discontent

“The first thing we do in my house is say do you want empathy or do you want a solution?”
― Lisa Feldman Barrett PhD

“Comfortably living below what you can afford, without much desire for more, removes a tremendous amount of social pressure that many people in the modern first world subject themselves to. Nassim Taleb explained: “True success is exiting some rat race to modulate one’s activities for peace of mind.” I like that.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money