Brain Pickings Quotes

#1. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

Timothy Ferriss

#2. ...an when we got there, O my brothers and chiefs, we saw what it said: OSVETIM, Auschwitz, an it was too late for us to turn back, no matter how badly we wanted to...

Jachym Topol

#3. Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Franklin P. Jones

#4. If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed ...

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

John D'Agata

#6. Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them.

Julian Barnes

#7. Adults are just outdated children.

Dr. Seuss