Nandhini

“Trick #3—excitement is not the same thing as fulfillment”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things

“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.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work

“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.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“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.”
― George S. Clason, The Richest Man In Babylon