Chelsey Cosh’s Reviews > Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes > Status Update

"Your happiness depends on your expectations more than anything else. So in a world that tends to get better for most people most of the time, an important life skill is getting the goalpost to stop moving. It’s also one of the hardest."

"Every event creates its own offspring, which impact the world in their own special ways. It makes prediction exceedingly hard. The absurdity of past connections should humble your confidence in predicting future ones."

"People like to say, 'To know where we're going, you have to know where we've been.' But more realistic is admitting that if you know where we've been, you realize we have no idea where we're going. Events compound in unfathomable ways."