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Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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“You need only allow gentle hope to enter your heart. Exhale and allow hope, and give yourself some time. This is a process of change that requires a good deal of self-compassion, which is neither stagnant nor permissive. We can just start by being a little kinder to ourselves and open to the possibility that life doesn’t have to be bloody awful.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction

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“If we all feel that we are alone, how alone are we?”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

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“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that is curiously ill-equipped to deal with the challenges that entails.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

tags: addiction, alienation, compulsion, despair, disconnection, instinct, pain, the-human-condition

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“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction

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“I have no power at all over people, places and things, and if I ever for a moment mistakenly believe that I do, and act as if I do, pain is on its way.”
― Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

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