Enrico

“The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst.”
― Nathan Hill, The Nix

“Being less available over text, in other words, has a way of paradoxically strengthening your relationship even while making you (slightly) less available to those you care about. This point is crucial because many people fear that their relationships will suffer if they downgrade this form of lightweight connection. I want to reassure you that it will instead strengthen the relationships you care most about. You can be the one person in their life who actually talks to them on a regular basis, forming a deeper, more nuanced relationship than any number of exclamation points and bitmapped emojis can provide.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself