Human Flourishing

dentify small purchases that make you happy, and don’t feel guilty about spending money on them. Ignore financial experts who tell you to save by not buying coffee or minor indulgences. Those purchases are not going to make a difference in your longterm financial goals, but they can have an impact on your immediate happiness.

If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right

And in Rebecca Solnit’s words, “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency…. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.”

That is pretty unfair of me, because not only am I assuming an awful lot, but Laszlo seems pretty content, certainly more content and happier than I am. Feeling sorry for someone, projecting your idea of success and meaning, while perhaps well intended, is awfully insulting

People with very high expectations have very low resilience