My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

Meghan Daum
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More Quotes By Meghan Daum
  1. Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four days, researchers from Washington University and the University of Arizona found a correlation between feelings of well-being and the amount of time spent...

  2. For my mother’s entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.

  3. Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

  4. There's more than one way to be a person. Actually, there are more than two or three ways. You'd think that was obvious, but I find that often it is not. The world is essentially a collection of teams. Life is a process of deciding...

  5. Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally – and sometimes maddeningly – who we are.

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