You put your time where your priority is.
Sebastian FaulksIt's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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Grief is a peculiar emotion.
Sebastian FaulksTags: grief
They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
Sebastian FaulksI want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
Sebastian FaulksTags: happiness
I'd become more adept at being with other people; I'd lowered my expectations of them and learned to let my mind drift into neutral when they spoke.
Sebastian FaulksThat sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
Sebastian FaulksTags: happiness
I felt trapped in a world that I couldn't mould to my own desires. Others were in sunlight; I was in darkness.
Sebastian FaulksThis is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
Sebastian FaulksThe thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
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