Meditations for Mortals: Quotes
Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Book by Oliver Burkeman
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Addressing the fundamental questions about how to live, Meditations for Mortals offers a powerful new way to take action on what counts: a guiding philosophy of life Oliver Burkeman calls “imperfectionism.”
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You Are Free To Do Whatever You Like
You are free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.
- Sheldon B. Kopp
Section: 1, Chapter: 3
Every Morning, At About 9.30
Every morning, therefore, at about 9.30 after breakfast each of us, as if moved by a law of unquestioned nature, went off and "worked" until lunch at one. It is surprising how much one can produce in a year, whether of buns or books or pots or pictures, if one works hard and professionally for three and a half hours every day for 330 days [a year]. That was why, despite her disabilities, Virginia was able to produce so very much.
- Leonard Woolf
Section: 2, Chapter: 13
The One Thing Dreaded Throughout
[There is a] strange attitude and feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being, one is doing this or that, but whether it is [a relationship with] a woman or a job, it is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about... The one thing dreaded throughout by such a type of man is to be bound to anything whatever. There is a terrific fear of being pinned down, of entering time and space completely, and of being the singular human being that one is.
- Marie-Louise von Franz
Section: 4, Chapter: 22
Everyone Is Screwed Up
Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides.
- Anne Lamott
Section: 4, Chapter: 24
There Is A Great Work To Be Done
The good thing about everything being so fucked up is that no matter where you look, there is great work to be done.
- Derrick Jensen
Section: 4, Chapter: 28
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