Ayesha

“In late 1998, the stock of a tiny, rarely traded building-maintenance company, Temco Services, nearly tripled in a matter of minutes on record-high volume. Why? In a bizarre form of financial dyslexia, thousands of traders bought Temco after mistaking its ticker symbol, TMCO, for that of Ticketmaster Online (TMCS), an Internet darling whose stock began trading publicly for the first time that day.8 Oscar Wilde joked that a cynic “knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“Around this same time, I decided to cut my own bangs with my dad’s mustache scissors.”
― Rachel Hollis, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

“Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in your
name, and beyond the grave they will find only death. But we
will keep the secret, and for their own happiness we will entice
them with a heavenly and eternal reward. —THE GRAND INQUISITOR TO HIS “SAVIOR” IN
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Do you think it matters that you are in New Jersey, New York, Singapore, or Calgary if you feel like you belong? For me, all that matters is that feeling where my heart does not flutter in agitation, I don’t have to keep looking at my watch or have to be somewhere that someone has commanded me to be. It’s being there in the moment and enjoying the bliss. And in Calgary, I am.”
― Kaur Kelly, Letters to Singapore