Palsko

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. And if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again”
― F. S. Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“Some people go through the heavy stuff. They fight in wars. They're in jail. They start a business and it gets shut down by gangsters. They end up hustling their ass in a foreign country. It's one long list of setbacks and humiliations. But it doesn't touch them, not really. They're having an adventure. It's like: What's next? And then there's other people who are just trying to live quietly, they stay out of trouble, they're maybe ten years old, or fourteen, and one Friday morning at 9:35 something happens to them, something private, something that breaks their heart. Forever.”
― Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

“Remember this rule,” advises Kahneman: “Intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.”
― John M. Coates, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind

“The unconscious mind is a terrific solver of complex problems when the conscious mind is busy elsewhere or, perhaps better yet, not overtaxed at all.”
― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success