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Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
“will providing a guaranteed basic income create greater dependency than a single cash transfer? And are cash transfers more effective than other forms of aid? We do not yet have sufficient evidence to answer these questions.”
― The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
― The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
“The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the ‘tonic of wildness’ as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“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.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
“You can't control other people's behaviour, but you can conrol your responses to it.”
― Dealing with Difficult People - How to deal with nasty customers, demanding bosses and uncooperative colleagues
― Dealing with Difficult People - How to deal with nasty customers, demanding bosses and uncooperative colleagues
“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.”
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