Eka

“the curious suggestion, in the term “life hack,” that your life is best thought of as some kind of faulty contraption, in need of modification so as to stop it from performing suboptimally.)”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Soon, your sense of self-worth gets completely bound up with how you’re using time: it stops being merely the water in which you swim and turns into something you feel you need to dominate or control, if you’re to avoid feeling guilty, panicked, or overwhelmed.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“She said to me, I should’ve not lost so much time being afraid of her dying. But that’s normal, I told her. It’s difficult to lose your friend. Everybody gets afraid. We should be more like the animals, she said. The animals don’t think of the future or the past; they pay attention to what is happening in the present. It is enough to sit with a person. To brush the hair. To massage the feet. To bring them what they need. We can’t fight what we can’t control. She said she missed her.”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water