Stephen Chong

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
― Socrates

“If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.”
― Silvia Hartmann