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Enough comes from trying things out. It comes from challenging your preconceptions. It comes from having less, trying more, then reducing to find out what is just right.
“Henry Thoreau said that we don’t own things; things own us. Every new object—whether it’s a home, a car, a television, or a fancy phone like that one—is something more we must carry on our backs.”
― If It Bleeds
― If It Bleeds
“One of life's challenging realizations is that sometimes you outgrow your friends.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Has social media made us socially obese—gorged on constant connection but never properly nourished?”
― Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
― Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
“At the end of that Roger Ebert essay, he says he decided to force himself to do the reading that he knew, deep down, his brain wanted and needed. When he gave himself the proper literary diet (and found a room in the house where his Wi-Fi connection failed), “I felt a kind of peace. This wasn’t hectic. I wasn’t skittering around here and there. I wasn’t scanning headlines and skimming pages and tweeting links. I was reading. . . . Maybe I can rewire my brain, budge it back a little in the old direction.”
― The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
― The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection
“But then I wondered if sometimes our friendships are a bit like clothes and when they start feeling uncomfortable it's not because we've done anything wrong. It just means that we've outgrown them.”
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