Kittiphon Boonma

“The tycoons of social media have to stop pretending that they’re friendly nerd gods building a better world and admit they’re just tobacco farmers in T-shirts selling an addictive product to children.5 Because, let’s face it, checking your “likes” is the new smoking.”
― Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology

“Of course I have a secret. We all do,” I said. “Each of us is like a moon that shows only a few facets to earth, but never its full sphere. Most of us never meet those who’ll understand our full rounded self. I show people only that sliver of me I think they’ll grasp. I show others other slices. But there’s always a facet of darkness I keep to myself.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“This is one reason why we are unable to connect to the suffering of many others: we have a defence mechanism to protect ourselves from overload. It is likely that, for all the flowery pronouncements of greetings cards and greatly followed spiritual and moral leaders, our ability to show genuine compassion is limited. It’s limited because we do not have the cognitive equipment to process it.”
― Dexter Dias, The Ten Types of Human: A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be

“Love is easy,” I said. “It’s the courage to love and to trust that matters, and not all of us have both.”
― André Aciman, Find Me