Anthony Setiawan

“it means standing firm in the face of FOMO, the “fear of missing out,” because you come to realize that missing out on something—indeed, on almost everything—is basically guaranteed. Which isn’t actually a problem anyway, it turns out, because “missing out” is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“But all a plan is—all it could ever possibly be—is a present-moment statement of intent. It’s an expression of your current thoughts about how you’d ideally like to deploy your modest influence over the future. The future, of course, is under no obligation to comply.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Richard Bach: “You teach best what you most need to learn.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Untroubled by any notion of time “ticking away,” he might have experienced a heightened awareness of the vividness of things, the feeling of timelessness that Richard Rohr, a contemporary Franciscan priest and author, calls “living in deep time.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals