Cassandra

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars