Rae M

“To rest for the sake of rest—to enjoy a lazy hour for its own sake—entails first accepting the fact that this is it: that your days aren’t progressing toward a future state of perfectly invulnerable happiness, and that to approach them with such an assumption is systematically to drain our four thousand weeks of their value.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“how normal it has become to feel as though you absolutely must do more than you can do.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“You can’t know that things will turn out all right. The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one—which means you have permission to stop engaging in it.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals