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Oliver Burkeman

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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  • b3858983599has quoted3 years ago
    fleeting and brittle
  • Liza Rakovskayahas quoted3 years ago
    ‘when you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float’
  • Liza Rakovskayahas quoted3 years ago
    order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions – or, at the very least, to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.
  • Liza Rakovskayahas quoted3 years ago
    the effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
  • Liza Rakovskayahas quoted3 years ago
    Ask yourself whether you are happy,’ observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, ‘and you cease to be so.
  • Еленаhas quoted4 years ago
    Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.’
  • Еленаhas quoted4 years ago
    Schemes and plans for making things better fuel our dissatisfaction with the only place where happiness can ever be found – the present.
  • Еленаhas quoted5 years ago
    How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything, Yes, Anything!
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