“Almost always we are all experiencing the same problems as everyone else and pretending we don’t so that every one of us thinks we are alone.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Alone, Problems, struggles
“None of us knows what we want to do when we’re his age. When we’re your age, when you’re my age. Any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we’re right, but only ever in retrospect.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Age, Career, Confused
“It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Feelings, Pain, Heartache
“Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Comfort, Relaxation, Escape
“She didn’t have a good reason for most of what she did. Mostly, she went by what seemed right in the moment, and justified it to herself later, and in this way she was no different than anyone else she knew.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Reason, live in the moment, actions
“People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Time, Age, Wisdom
“She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Meaning, Life, World
“She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Showers, Clean, Lonely
“Look, life is stressful. This is true everywhere.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Stress, worries, Life
“Everything I do is for a reason. And I don't know what that reason is. Everything I do is for a reason, and I know none of them. Everything makes sense, and the sense is hidden from me.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Reasons, actions, Meaning
“When nothing else works, eating sure does.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: eating, food, Depression
“To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Remembered, Memories, rights
“She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Anger, Fear, Feelings
“The search for truth takes us to dangerous places.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Knowledge, Learning
“Your life is your life. You haven’t lost it. It’s just different now.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Life, Changes, different
“How do you say everything you’ve wanted to say to a person who has been a big part of your life and doesn’t know you at all?”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Celebrities, Role Models, Famous
“All information was important information, even if the reasons were not immediately apparent.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: information, Knowledge, Learning
“If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: actions, Judgements, Judged
“What does it mean when you know you’re feeling something but you don’t know what that feeling is?”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Feelings, emotions, Confused
“Not everybody gets to be friends with everybody.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, People
“Desperation does not breed empathy or clear thinking.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Desperate, Empathy, Thinking
“There’s no sense in going through life presuming awful things about people you do not know.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Assumptions, mean, Judgements
“Sleep is confusing. Dreams are baffling. The concept of transitioning from one perceived reality to another is a tolerated madness.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Sleep, Dreams, Reality
“She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Lazy, Shy, antisocial
“The problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: fair, unfair, Questions
“People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: beauty, Attraction, Beautiful
“Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Words, Communication, Confusion
“Some people prefer to make their homes so neat that there is no evidence of life anywhere at all.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.comTagged: Homes, Clean, Tidy