#toi

Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. ↗

— Oliver Burkeman

#stoicism #visualization

The 40-hour work week, long considered the gold standard, has quietly and insidiously stretched into 50 to 60 hours. Despite this accepted practice, social commentators and the average person agree that functioning at such a pace can't possibly be good for one's mental or physical health. /So I ask you: if the expanded work-week isn't healthy for someone in good physical condition, how can it possibly be acceptable for someone with a chronic illness? Quite simply, it's not. ↗

— Rosalind Joffe

#chronic-illness #mental-health

When somebody follows you 20 blocks to the pharmacy, where they watch you buy toilet paper, you know your life has changed. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#buy #changed #follows #know #life

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me. ↗

— Willie Aames

#big #big movie #cleaning #day #god

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. ↗

— Arrian

#alexander #almost #any #close #cruise

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom. ↗

— Russell Baker

#computer #databases #day #fitting #glass

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#company #dance #ever #expensive #furthers

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. ↗

— Beck

#city #coming #full #i #malls

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#artist #culture #field #frequently #i

Light is the task where many share the toil. ↗

— Homer

#many #share #task #toil #where