Lil

“It's not about giving a fuck about everything your partner gives a fuck about; it's about giving a fuck about your partner regardless of the fucks he or she gives. That's unconditional love, baby.”
― Mark Manson

“Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“Our sense of our own freedom results from our not paying attention to what it is actually like to be what we are. The moment we do pay attention, we begin to see that free will is nowhere to be found, and our subjectivity is perfectly compatible with this truth. Thoughts and actions simply arise in the mind. What else could they do? The truth about us is stranger than many suppose: The illusion of free will is itself an illusion.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“It isn't easy being an organism. In the whole universe, as far as we yet know, there is only one place, an inconspicuous outpost of the Milky Way called the Earth, that will sustain you, and even it can be pretty grudging.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything