Michelle

“Happiness is for children and animals, it doesn't have any biological function. Happy people don't create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all of your heroes, they've been obsessed. Happy people don't get obsessed, they don't devote their lives to curing illnesses or making planes take off. The happy people leave nothing behind. They live for the sake of living, they're only on earth as consumers.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“Being smart is the worst thing one can be in modern society. All it ever means is more work.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“Too often the idea of a mentor is a self-limiting device that has most of us hunting for someone we'll never find because of access or because our chosen guide already has a waiting list. ... By narrowing our sense of what a mentor can be, we ignore those who are all around, ready to help us hone our skills and build our leadership capacity.”
― Stacey Abrams

“A second is always a second; that's the one definitive value we have on Earth. Everyone is always negotiating, all of the time. You're doing the deal of your life, every day.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime