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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

by Oliver Burkeman

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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This future-focused attitude often takes the form of what I once heard described as the “‘when-I-finally’ mind,” as in: “When I finally get my workload under control/get my candidate elected/find the right romantic partner/sort out my ...more

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“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

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“أحن إلى خبز أمي
وقهوة أمي ..
ولمسة أمي ..
وتكبُر في الطفولة
يوماً على صدر يوم
وأعشق عمري لأني
إذا مت،
أخجل من دمع أمي!”
― محمود درويش

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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