“This is important because research shows that we’re attracted to environments with a moderately high degree of complexity, but only if the complexity is well structured. The greater the complexity in an environment, the greater the need for an underlying harmony to bring a sense of order and ease to a space.”
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
“Now I recognize that burnout often has as much boredom in it as exhaustion.”
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
“I noticed a quote scribbled on a chalkboard that I hadn’t seen on the way in. It was from a play by Oscar Wilde: THE SECRET OF LIFE IS TO APPRECIATE THE PLEASURE OF BEING TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY DECEIVED.”
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
“Lindsay was a tough kid, donning a mask of self-reliance and stubbornness that served her well through childhood, and then eventually that mask fused to her real face. The question was how well that mask was still working for her now: hypervigilant, uncomfortable with failure, terrified to present herself to others as anything less than perfect.”
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
― Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
“We are here, as Diane Ackerman writes, to live not just the length of our lives, but the width of them as well. We”
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
― Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
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