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It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”—the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in
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“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
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“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
― Dust
― Dust
“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
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“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” —F. M. Alexander”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
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