Average Americans began thinking of their homes as monetary objects to be bought, sold, invested in— consumed —rather than places to be experienced, places in which our complex lives as human beings unfold.
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Like the beauty industry, the home-improvement industry plays on (usually gendered) insecurity—the fear that we are unattractive or inadequate. But the truth is, “other people” don’t have to live in your house, and when they come to visit, they’re there to see you, not your succulents and marble-and-brass side table.
~ Kate Wagner in Are Home Renovations Necessary? at Curbed
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I don't wanna miss it / I don't wanna look back someday and find / Everything that really mattered / Was right in front of me this whole time / Open up my eyes, Lord / Keep me in the moment just like this / Before the beautiful things we love / Become the beautiful things we miss
~ Matthew West in The Beautiful Things We Miss on All In
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Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We are at risk of making most of our life experiences a series of trolley rides.
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Struggle is not always a problem. Sometimes struggle is a solution. It can be the solution to the question of who you are.
~ Tim Wu in The Tyranny of Convenience at The New York Times
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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity.
~ Dr. Rick Rigsby on Goalcast on Facebook
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My thinking went like this, "If there is any external reality in my life that I could not give up for 40 days, it has become a controlling influence on me. By definition, I have lost an element of self-control."
~ Joshua Becker in The Value of Fasting (from Anything). And How to Get Started. at Becoming Minimalist
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