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“We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy... But our temporal progeny are often thankless. We toil and sweat to give them just what we think they will like, and they quit their jobs, grow their hair, move to or from San Francisco, and wonder how we could ever have been stupid enough to think they’d like that. We fail to achieve the accolades and rewards that we consider crucial to their well-being, and they end up thanking God that things didn’t work out according to our shortsighted, misguided plan.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”
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“Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.”
― Stumbling on Happiness
― Stumbling on Happiness
“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”
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Emi’s 2025 Year in Books
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