Kate

“The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom. We get bored with habits because they stop delighting us. The outcome becomes expected. And as our habits become ordinary, we start derailing our progress to seek novelty. Perhaps this is why we get caught up in a never-ending cycle, jumping from one workout to the next, one diet to the next, one business idea to the next.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

“As Aristotle noted, “Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.” Perhaps this can be revised to “Youth is easily deceived because it only hopes.” There is no experience to root the expectation in. In the beginning, hope is all you have.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“When you break up with someone, you invite the possibility of both of you becoming entirely new people. And it’s because you’ve seen different things, met different people, and felt different things. Even if you haven’t fallen in love or dated a new person, you will have grown in ways you could never imagine or maybe haven’t considered. Your professional outlook has changed. You’ve watched new shows and listened to new music. You’ve both faced different adversaries and come out with new perspectives. Even if you think you’ll always be the same person with the same feelings, I promise you that you won’t.”
― Author Maria Avgitidis, Ask a Matchmaker: Matchmaker Maria's No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Love

“This is the melting-pot, the seat of a great human experiment. Beautiful words, full of noble, idealistic sentiment. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peoples is blasphemous”
― Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare