Madly Jane

“Consisting of roughly 86 billion neurons, connected by roughly a hundred trillion synapses, the human brain is the most complicated object on this planet designed to resist entropy.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

“Our mattering projects can be selfish or altruistic, individualistic or communitarian, competitive or cooperative, religious or secular, creative or destructive. But whether it’s tending one’s garden or one’s cause, one’s relationships or one’s reputation, one’s immortal soul or one’s net worth, these mattering projects become the loci of some of our deepest emotions.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

“More leaf over the soil means more fertility returning to the ground.”
― Charles Dowding, Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests

“What the mattering instinct is about is trying to prove to ourselves that we are deserving of all the attention that we can’t help paying ourselves. And what better proof can there be for concluding that we are deserving of our own attention than the attention others pay to us—which in the case of the famous is a great deal.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us