Meredith

“But the shock and vertigo of the recognition of the fragility of everything, and my own powerlessness in it, has left its mark on me.”
― Katie Mack, The End of Everything

“The last thing we need is blind optimism about technology.”
― Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

“It’s alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you’re doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it’s liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all—to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they’re aware of it or not.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Smell is life’s oldest sense. Standing here alone, nostrils flaring, it occurs to me that breathing is so much more than just getting air into our bodies. It’s the most intimate connection to our surroundings.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art