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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

by Chris Hadfield

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Aug 07, 2022 06:34PM

“But for me to remember my hurt, Nastenka. For me to chase a black cloud over your bright untroubled happiness. For me to put sadness into your heart with a bitter reproach, to sting it with secret remorse and make it beat mournfully at the moment of bliss. To rumple at least one of these delicate flowers you'd woven into your black curls when you went to the alter with him.. Oh never, never! May your sky be clear, may your dear smile be bright and carefree, and may you be blessed for the moment of enjoyment and happiness you'd given to another lonely and grateful heart. My god, a moment of bliss, is that too little for an entire human life?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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“1. The hardest financial skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving. But it’s one of the most important. If expectations rise with results there is no logic in striving for more because you’ll feel the same after putting in extra effort. It gets dangerous when the taste of having more—more money, more power, more prestige—increases ambition faster than satisfaction. In that case one step forward pushes the goalpost two steps ahead. You feel as if you’re falling behind, and the only way to catch up is to take greater and greater amounts of risk.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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“there was the unsettling fact that, despite whatever my mother might claim, the bullies, cheats, and self-promoters seemed to be doing quite well, while those she considered good and decent people seemed to get screwed an awful lot.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

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“We give those we love nicknames, because love requires a word that belongs to us alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.”
― Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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