Jenn

“It’s only by facing our finitude that we can step into a truly authentic relationship with life.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“But the undodgeable reality of a finite human life is that you are going to have to choose.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life,” wrote Nietzsche, “because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”)”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“To remember how little you matter, on a cosmic timescale, can feel like putting down a heavy burden that most of us didn’t realize we were carrying in the first place.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals