Morgan Allison

“unpredictability of my profession with my brother recently, he told me about scientific studies where lab rats were rewarded with food pellets at random, illogical times. Those rats went crazy.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

“Do you want to be good or do you want to be whole? —Carl Jung”
― Lee Lipsenthal, Enjoy Every Sandwich: Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last

“To my surprise, Epstein seemed to be arguing that Buddhism was better than seeing a shrink. Therapy, he said, often leads to “understanding without relief.” Even Freud himself had conceded that the best therapy could do was bring us from “hysteric misery” to “common unhappiness.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier

“And it’s eliminated my ability to just talk to you.” He was still talking. “I mean, I can’t send you emails, because you immediately forward them to someone else. I can’t send you a photo, because you post it on your own profile. And meanwhile, your company is scanning all of our messages for information they can monetize. Don’t you think this is insane?”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle