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1 " The overwhelming and inevitable life-lean towards the ordinary is why true deep-pile contentment is found when you re-enchant the everyday. "
― , The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary
2 " Life moves fast – evolution is slow, "
3 " Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change’. "
4 " In Britain, we spend an average of five years of our lives bored. "
5 " It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.’ Seneca "
6 " Hedonic adaptation is a wildly interesting quirk that humans possess to adapt to both positive and negative experiences. Victory wears off; agony does too. Euphoria fades; despair too. Love wanes; heartbreak too. And life events that we expect to clinch eternal happiness, or spell cataclysmic lifelong doom, just…don’t. "
7 " If I just work a bit more, I’ll do better! "
8 " I have my sights set on a constantly shifting target. And who’s moving it? I am. Nobody else but me. "
9 " Instead, I struggled to make friends in the mega-tropolis of faceless London, where it’s illegal to look strangers in the eye. "
10 " there are starving children in...’ vein. Yes, there are, and we damn straight shouldn’t forget it, and we should stay aware and donate money/help if we can, but that does not mean that people in the first world are disallowed from having negative feelings. "
11 " If everyone likes you, you’re not doing it right.’ Bette Davis "
12 " Kindness is free, hate is expensive "
13 " The more stuff you have, the more you have to lose. "
14 " hedonic adaptation’. "