When you’re not around me it feels like I’m just wasting time. When you’re here it’s like … the whole world is coloured just that little bit brighter. I want to feel your skin against mine. I want to see your smile and hear that laugh of yours when you forget yourself and just let it burst straight out of you … I want to make you happy … I want to wake up every morning beside you.
– from The Giver of Stars book by Jojo Moyes
To lose balance sometimes for love …
To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.
– from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert
When you are happy, everywhere is …
When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
– from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
You should know that the only …
You should know that the only safe place on the planet is your grave. Nothing happens there. There is no safety in life itself.
– from Death; An Inside Story book by Sadhguru
If, say, all of your money …
If, say, all of your money is in one bank, one brokerage, one country, one currency, one asset class, or one fund, you may be playing with a loaded gun. With luck, you can get away with anything in the short term. With time, the odds rise that your vulnerability will be exposed by unforeseen events.
– from Richer, Wiser, Happier book by William Green
Living in the past was a …
Living in the past was a little like living underwater and breathing through a tube.
– from 11/22/63 book by Stephen King
America is run from the bottom …
America is run from the bottom up and optimized for the individual; China is run from the top down and optimized for the collective.
– from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order book by Ray Dalio
When terrible things happen, most people …
When terrible things happen, most people become waves, but some people become rocks. Waves are tossed back and forth when the wind comes, but the rocks just take a beating, immovable, waiting for the storm to blow over.
– from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Facebook is helping some of the …
Facebook is helping some of the worst people in the world do terrible things. How it’s an astonishingly effective machine to turn people against each other. And monitor people at a scale that was never possible before. And manipulate them. It’s an incredibly valuable tool for the most autocratic, oppressive regimes, because it gives them exactly what those regimes need: direct access into what people are saying from the top to bottom of society.
– from Careless People book by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Too much sugar leads to a …
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson