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Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Yet one of the most important things we have to learn is how to cope with abundance and with our hunger for yet more abundance”
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Though you work like mad to keep parts of you undiscovered, it is horrible to imagine that you will be completely successful. As the psychologist D.W. Winnicott wrote, "It is a joy to be hidden, but a disaster not to be found.”
Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

Jennifer Michael Hecht
“Aurelius says that one reason it doesn't matter how long you live is that this is not theatre, that the whole is not the thing. Each moment is the thing. "The soul obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed. Not as...in a play...where the whole action is incomplete if anything cuts it short; but in every part and wherever it be stopped, it makes what has been set before it full and complete, so that it can say, 'I have what is my own.”
Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

“Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same.”
Malvina Reynolds

Jennifer Michael Hecht
“A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food's contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.”
Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

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