Sepideh

“Look into your own existence. Count the significant events, the technological changes, and the inventions that have taken place in our environment since you were born and compare them to what was expected before their advent. How many of them came on a schedule? Look into your own personal life, to your choice of profession, say, or meeting your mate, your exile from your country of origin, the betrayals you faced, your sudden enrichment or impoverishment. How often did these things occur according to plan?”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“I submit that God has no wishes about how, or even if, we glorify Him. Allow me, then, Jacob, to love God in my own fashion.” Franco’s”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“What torments people have to go through when they leave the safety of their homes to become embroiled in mad adventures.”
― José Saramago, All the Names

“Evidence shows that we do much less thinking than we believe we do—except, of course, when we think about it.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable