Jackie Danicki

I absolutely love this. Though it was - like so many axioms we come to hold dear later in life - not fun to learn, accepting this idea has improved my life to an immeasurable degree:

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

-Simone Weil (not someone with whom I agree on much, to put it mildly) via my friend Gretchen Rubin, whose Happiness Project blog just got a facelift, and now features the cover art for the forthcoming Happiness Project book (pre-order now!).

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