“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“I've been a police officer for twenty years now and I'll tell you, pretty much every bad thing is life is a result of bad timing, and every good thing is the result of good timing.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“The words you can't find, you borrow.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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