30 Quotes by Oliver Burkeman

What actually causes suffering are the beliefs you hold about those things.

Is it other people that bother me? Or the judgment I make about other people?”.

Attachment, this argument runs, is the only thing that motivates anyone to accomplish anything worthwhile in the first place. If you weren’t attached to things being a certain way, rather than another way – and to feeling certain emotions, rather than others – why would you ever attempt to thrive professionally, to better your material circumstances, to raise children, or to change the world?