Maria Lasprilla

“In a world devoted to the satisfaction of private wants, the good life can be at best a marginal concern, an affair of eccentrics and enthusiasts. Its adherents are liable to be plagued by the thought that they are not 'up to' the pressures of competition, that their ideals are a mere mask for failure. Thus, although it is true that a liberal society permits any number of visions of the good life, it is by the same token hospitable to none of them.”
― Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky

“You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.”
― Roberta Cava, Dealing with Difficult People - How to deal with nasty customers, demanding bosses and uncooperative colleagues

“that hints at a partial solution to the problem of an overly instrumentalised life. We might seek to incorporate into our daily lives more things we do for their own sake alone – to spend some of our time, that is, on activities in which the only thing we’re trying to get from them is the doing itself.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

“We’ll do almost anything to avoid burning our bridges, to keep alive the fantasy of a future unconstrained by limitation, yet having burned them, we’re generally pleased that we did so.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It