Maria Lasprilla

“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

“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

“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.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“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.”
― Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty