"The three most harmful addictions are..." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“The three most harmful addictions are heroin carbohydrates and a monthly salary”

Question the complex systems that make life feel secure but keep you trapped

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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”

— Mark Twain

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

— Wendell Berry

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”

— Alan Watts

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus