Matt Gorman

“On Uncertainty My parents and I were living in a refugee settlement in Vienna after we left the former Soviet Union. Everything was uncertain, scary, and pretty terrible. This didn’t stop my dad from announcing one day that we were going to visit the opera house in Vienna. I thought playing tourists was ridiculous—we had no money, no citizenship, and no home. “We don’t know if we’ll ever be back here again,” my dad said. “Life is short. It’s stupid to sit here and wallow in our troubles.” Now I realize … he’s right. Nataly Kogan, cofounder and CEO of Happier, Inc.”
― Anonymous

“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“People who have meaning in their lives, in the form of a clearly defined purpose, rated their satisfaction with life higher—even when they were feeling bad—than those who did not have a clearly defined purpose.”
― Anonymous

“people who thought more about the present were happier, but people who spent more time thinking about the future or about past struggles or suffering felt more meaning.”
― Anonymous