Tolstoy - family happines

"He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others...
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the poosibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happines. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"

[porque consideramos fazer o que não nos faz feliz como opção?]

Eu e você aqui, sonhando com um futuro cheio de expectativas, motivo de tantos momentos aparentemente frustrantes.
E no ônibus, uma mulher que só quer ser amada pelo moço que preferiu passar a catraca.

Jon Krakauer

"By and by your attention becames so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration. A tracelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence - the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes - all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by seriousness of the task at hand."

Paulo Mendes Campos

"Em Brasília o amor pode virar pó; no Rio, frivolidade; em Belo Horizonte, remorso; em São Paulo, dinheiro."