Compensation Contemplation Gifts

"Getting a year end bonus makes me feel like I'm paid fairly for at least this one pay period."

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

"The overthinker"

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

"I've switched my energy provider, and I switched my broadband provider. Now I want to switch my misery provider."

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

Zenemies.

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

'Are you not thinking what I'm not thinking?'

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

'Being a nobody isn't so bad...You don't have to worry about becoming a has-been.'

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

Sign on wall of spacious empty hall of museum: 'Air & Space Exhibit'

'Hey! - why bicker all evening when we could be watching a film about ideological genocide.'

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

"Exactly what is this 'nothing' I've been hearing so much about?"

"I got my wife a book on decluttering and the first thing to go was me."

Soren Kierkegaard

"Gazing at stars really makes you realise the insignificance of your co-workers."

There, but for the grace of God, go I.

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

'Have you ever imagined a world without stupid hypothetical questions?'

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

"I don't feel ready to commit to a cacoon, either, but do you ever worry we'll wake up one day and be forty and still caterpillars?"