“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”

“We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.”

“The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.”

“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what someth...”

“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.”

“Characteristics of System 1: generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by System 2 these become beliefs, attitudes, and intentions operates automatically and quickly, with ...”

“Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own tr...”

“Nature reflects the moods of the wizard.”

“My calling ties me to no office, makes me no man's slave, compels me to no action which my soul condemns. It sets me free from town life, which I loathe; and allows me to breathe clean air, to exer...”

“Menulis kembali kenangan masa lalu butuh sebuah keberanian.”

“There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.”

“ignorance and power, theyre a poor combination.”

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”