Lifehack

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
- Robertson Davies

Philosophy

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to. -Chuang Tzu

Lifehack

"It's not that I am smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
-- Albert Einstein (physicist)

Lifehack

They always talk who never think.
- Matthew Prior

Google

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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amidabuddha.org - Daily Meditation

Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our only freedom, but ours it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. 'Living free' is being 'as one is'. Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It is not even a 'doing': it is beyond doing and not-doing. It is being as-we-are. This is the only 'practice'. 'All Else is Bondage; Non-Volitional Living' - Wei Wu Wei

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Bertrand Russell

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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in." - Leonardo da Vinci

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco

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He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t - New York Times

The problem with the principle of even-numberedness is that people count differently. Every action has a cause and a consequence: something that led to it and something that followed from it. But research shows that while people think of their own actions as the consequences of what came before, they think of other people’s actions as the causes of what came later. -- Daniel Gilbert in New York Times.

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Fooled by Randomness

People fail to learn from their emotional reactions to past experiences (positive or negative) were short-lived – yet they continuously retain the bias of thinking that the purchase of an object will bring long-lasting, possibly permanent, happiness or that a setback will cause severe and prolonged distress (when in the past similar setbacks did not affect them for very long and the joy of the purchase was short-lived).