Darin

“We all know there are plenty of people who might benefit from learning to defer gratification much more than they currently do. It’s just that if you’re the kind of person who vigorously agrees with that statement, it’s highly likely that you’d benefit from learning to defer it less.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

“Having faith creates so many possibilities. It quiets the logical mind, a mind that forever seeks answers that don’t always need to be found.”
― Bronnie Ware, Your Year for Change: 52 Reflections for Regret-Free Living

“It can’t be the case that you must do more than you can do. That notion doesn’t make any sense: if you truly don’t have time for everything you want to do, or feel you ought to do, or that others are badgering you to do, then, well, you don’t have time—no matter how grave the consequences of failing to do it all might prove to be. So, technically, it’s irrational to feel troubled by an overwhelming to-do list. You’ll do what you can, you won’t do what you can’t, and the tyrannical inner voice insisting that you must do everything is simply mistaken.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“On the other hand, there’s no virtue in accumulating the greatest number of uneaten marshmallows that would be delicious were you ever to let yourself consume one. At some point, in order to experience the benefits of having received any in the first place, you’re going to have to eat a damn marshmallow.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts