Sarah Brittain

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles William Eliot

“One of the things that distinguishes great marriages from good marriages is the degree to which appreciation trumps tolerance.”
― Ty Tashiro, The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love

“Many people believe there exists a single person who is their perfect partner or “soul mate.” That may be true, but then I certainly hope that my soul mate does not live in a remote village in India. Suppose that my soul mate was born, like me, in the 1960s. Limiting myself to women who are still alive, and assuming that half of them have already met their soul mates, I have perhaps 200 million potential partners. If I meet two potential partners a day, there’s a 50/50 chance I will find my soul mate within a quarter of a million years.”
― PAUL OYER, Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating

“Religion provides a feeling that life is ultimately meaningful. It does so by explaining coherently and compellingly what transcends or overshadows everyday life,
in ways that other aspects of culture (such as an educational system or a belief in democracy) cannot (Geertz,
1973; Wuthnow, 1988).”
― Anthony Giddens, Introduction to Sociology