Andrew McLean

“The first rule of happiness is low expectations”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us beyond it, and then if we turn round to gaze into the distance of the past, we can barely see it, so imperceptible has it become.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time

“Today’s economy is good at generating three things: wealth, the ability to show off wealth, and great envy for other people’s wealth.”
― Morgan Housel, Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

“In the wilderness, all that changes. In the mountains, all that is different. You can have all the money in the world, but in the mountains, you’re just another mere mortal.”
― Cameron R. Hanes, Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering