Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.

An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.

A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.

A thing or situation is often worsened by the attempt to improve it.

Technological fruits such as audiobooks are food for the illusion that we can really do more than one thing at the same time.

We nonverbally say that we do not want to be where we are by not walking slowly.

Developing the extremely rare attitude of not minding how life is happening is a billion times better than prolonging your life, even if by a trillion years.

Listening to a good song is usually consolation for being unable to enjoy silence.

Photography created, and then social media aggravated, the vast majority of people’s inability to enjoy what is happening … without the urge to capture it.