“The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time. Can you find more time to do the things you enjoy doing?”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.”
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“different forms. “The verbal intercourse of these raven-beings of the planet Saturn is somewhat like our own. But their way of speaking is the most beautiful I have ever heard. “It can be compared to the music of our best singers when with all their being they sing in a minor key. “And as for the quality of their relations with each other—I don’t even know how to describe it. It can be known only by existing among them and having the experience oneself. “All that can be said is that these bird-beings have hearts exactly like those of the angels nearest our Endless Maker and Creator. “They exist strictly according to the ninth commandment of our Creator: ‘Consider everything belonging to another as if it were your own, and so treat it.’ “Later, I must certainly tell you in more detail about those three-brained beings who arise and exist on the planet Saturn, since one of my real friends during the whole period of my exile in that solar system was a being of that planet, who had the exterior coating of a raven and whose name was Harharkh.”
― Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
― Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson
“if you have had to force yourself to do something, you are less willing or less able to exert self-control when the next challenge comes around. The phenomenon has been named ego depletion.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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