NoorSuliman

“Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.”
― Oliver Burkeman, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

“Death changes everything in a flash. That’s the reality of the situation. If all these things can be changed in an instant, then maybe they aren’t so real after all.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“Knowing that death is not far off brings remarkable clarity. After that news, there is no middle ground; something is either very important or not important at all.”
― Matthew Kelly, Resisting Happiness

“some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future; how to do so with grace and confidence; and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions