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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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“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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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Ways of Escape
― Ways of Escape
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“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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