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Feel that... Feel that pounding... Like a jackhammer... You're alive.

fui pegar no livro outra vez e a pagina seguinte já são notas e depois é referências.... acabei de ler o livro e nem me apercebi lol

Recognizing the limitations of human will, accepting a cooperative rather than a ruling role in the universe, we should feel the relief of the exile who is finally returning home.

estou a dar uma segunda oportunidade a este livro mas estou fartinha fartinha dele, nao sei se vale a pena acabar

Inner congruence ultimately leads to that inner strength and serenity we admire in people who seem to have come to terms with themselves.

Westerners who go crazy working even though they cannot eat more than their daily bread....

But an exclusively economic approach to life is profoundly irrational; the true bottom line [of any human effort] consists in the quality and complexity of experience.

Alone, when the dark night of the soul descends, are we forced into frantic attempts to distract the mind from its coming?

They are easily manipulated by demagogues, pacified by entertainers, and exploited by anyone who has somehing to sell

este livro estah a ser tao repetitivo like WE GET ITTTT DESENVOLVE

andy weir the man that you are

ueueueueue tao fixeeeeee

THEY WAVED BACK???? im emotional ;-;

ESTOU A ADORAR ESTE LIVRO!!!!!!

Just consider the mass neurotic syndrome so pervasive in the young generation: there is ample empirical evidence that the three facets of this syndrome - depression, aggression, addiction - are due to what is called in logo-therapy "the existential vacuum," a feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness.

ele escreveu isto em 2006

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task."

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death - a state which I feared yet did not understand."

estas páginas valem mesmo a pena ler, é a distinção entre o valor no trabalho por ser trabalho vs por produzir coisas vs por ajudar pessoas, muito bom

okay este capitulo "Why do we as a society not object to the growth of pointless employment?" é o cerne da questão

ver página 236 sobre caring labor

"In other words, we'll make a living from you doing what you love (for free), but we'll keep you in check by making sure you have to make a living doing what you hate."