New Reasons

"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness."

Nov. 4, 2014 | My friend’s mom’s scrapbook paper.

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 late 2014.

Brain Pickings

“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.” —Carl Sagan

“The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.” —Albert Camus

"Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness." —Albert Camus

“At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for those people around me who live in the same century.” —AC (and I wish)

“Because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.” —Maurice Sendak

For commentary seven years later, go here.