3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.
Enjoy!
—Mark
“My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and not a single word can describe it.”
—The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector (1977)
“What we call greed is essentially discontent with the present.“
—Just So: Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe, by Alan Watts (2020)
“Follow the thread of scarcity far enough and it leads back to abundance: the recession that is caused by our behavior during the boom; the last-minute cramming that can be blamed on our inaction in the weeks prior. While scarcity plays a starring role in many important problems, abundance sets the stage for it.”
—Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir (2013)