“A part of all you earn is yours to keep. It should be not less than a tenth no matter how little you earn. It can be as much more as you can afford. Pay yourself first.”
― The Richest Man In Babylon
― The Richest Man In Babylon
“It is precisely when the foundational structure of the self is shaken that we are in the best position to pursue new opportunities in our lives.”
― Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
― Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
“We seek status because we don’t know our own preferences,” Agnes Callard, a philosopher at the University of Chicago, told me. “When we don’t trust our own definition of what is good, we let other people define it for us.”
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
― The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work
“It is not things in themselves that trouble us, but our opinion of things,” he observed.”
― Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society
― Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society
“When you are truly afraid, you experience an urgent desire to split from your body. You want to remove yourself from the thing that will experience pain and horror, but you are that thing. You are aboard a sinking ship, and you are the ship itself.”
― Great Circle
― Great Circle
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