Megen

“What I can confirm, though, is that if you can adopt the outlook we’re exploring here even just a little—if you can hold your attention, however briefly or occasionally, on the sheer astonishingness of being, and on what a small amount of that being you get—you may experience a palpable shift in how it feels to be here, right now, alive in the flow of time.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“We tend to speak about our having a limited amount of time. But it might make more sense, from Heidegger’s strange perspective, to say that we are a limited amount of time. That’s how completely our limited time defines us.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It

“For as many times as the horrible thing happens, a thousand times in every day the horrible thing passes us by.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

“This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals