Vi Loukidis

“It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously -- and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.”
― Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World

“If there was a way that I could not eat, so I could work more, I would not eat. I wish there was a way to get nutrients without sitting down for a meal.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

“as the old pharaoh was laid to rest, allowing her brother to claim his place fully upon the Isis Throne.”
― Stephanie Thornton, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt