Niklas Denser

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“but now I’m looking for the periphery, I’m looking for those surprises. That’s the good stuff. It all comes from the uncertainty. That’s the point of the journey.”
― Nathan R Furr, The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown

“David Brooks

Oprah: I love how you say we should rank our loves in highs and lows. Tell me what that does.
David Brooks: That’s a concept from the great theologian Augustine. And he asked the question, what is sin? When we use the word sin now, we only use the word in the context of fattening deserts. But in traditional morality, it’s the sense that we have something broken. And I don’t like the word sin when it’s meant to suggest we’re dark and depraved inside. But Augustine had a beautiful formula. He said, “We sin when we have our loves out of order.” And what he meant by that—
Oprah: Oh, this is good. “We sin when we have our loves out of order.” Yes.
David: So we all love a lot of things. We love family. We love money. We love a little affection. Status. Truth. And we all know that some loves are higher. We know that our love of family is higher than our love of money. Or our love of truth should be higher than our love of money. And if we’re lying to get money, we’re putting our loves out of order. And so sometimes just by our nature, we get them out of order. So, for example, if a friend tells you a secret, and you blab it at a dinner party, you’re putting your love of popularity above your love of friendship. And we know that’s wrong. That’s the wrong order. And so it’s useful to sit down and say, “What do I love? What are the things I really love? And in what order do I love them? Am I spending time on my highest love? Or am I spending time on a lower love?”
― Oprah Winfrey, The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights from Super Soul Conversations

“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself, not rating yourself against others.”
― Martin E.P. Seligman, Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment