Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Derren Brown
Top 10 Best Quotes
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”
“we are terrible at reading each other’s thoughts. Yet we consistently behave as if we have been endowed with this entirely handsome ability.”
“What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.”
“We see the illusion of individual predilection being maintained, for example, in the array of different styles of iPhone cases available to us. We wonder which of the provided range of colourful or sophisticated sheaths best communicates to the world our unique character. Thus we lean towards the wood effect, or the Batman one (ironically sported, of course), or the vintage Union Jack. Meanwhile, it is much harder to honestly ask ourselves whether our lives would be improved were we not to be attached to our devices quite as umbilically, and how much misery they bring us alongside the various conveniences and amusements. Whether we might be more authentically ourselves if, with a pioneering and curious spirit, we occasionally left them at home. It”
“learn to desire what you already have, and you will have all you need.”
“Many atheists might proudly proclaim that our lives have no ultimate meaning, yet the business of finding significance in one's life is perhaps the most important part of being human. When we drift into a life without meaning, we soon become a pack of symptoms and pathologies; and without any feeling of significance, many choose to end their lives altogether.”
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing”
“the mantra of ‘you can be anything’ creates more pain than pleasure.”
“We might never rid ourselves of a lingering anxiety regarding our death; this is a kind of tax we pay in return for self-awareness.”
“Schopenhauer wrote, ‘Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
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Book Keywords:
atheism, meaning-of-life, purpose, stoicism
