Mona

“In a sense, those critics who claim we are not working a fifteen-hour week because we have chosen consumerism over leisure are not entirely off the mark. They just got the mechanics wrong. We're not working harder because we're spending all our time manufacturing PlayStations and serving each other sushi. Industry is being increasingly robotized, and the real service sector remains flat at roughly 20 percent of overall employment. Instead, it is because we have invented a bizarre sadomasochistic dialectic whereby we feel that pain in the workplace is the only possible justification for our furtive consumer pleasures, and, at the same time, the fact that our jobs thus come to eat up more and more of our waking existence means that we do not have the luxury of--as Kathi Weeks has so concisely put it--"a life," and that, in turns means that furtive consumer pleasures are the only ones we have time to afford.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Every walk in the forest is like taking a shower in oxygen.”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from a Secret World