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Daisy Jones & The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 09, 2026 07:29PM

“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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“Look, son, if there's one thing I've figured out about life, it's that if you want to be happy, you have to learn to be happy on your own.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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“Comparison is the thief of joy.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: comparing, envy, happiness, unhappiness

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“Some are dining in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or even the Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and no be the biggest pygmy he can be? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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