“I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation.
..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“There's plenty of challenging, gratifying, interesting, productive workaround for people to do, and there are plenty of people who want to do it―they simply aren't being allowed that opportunity under the current economic system.”
Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“Using others is a sin.
Why should I wish
to use another?”
Source: Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World
“Du kannst dir nicht vorstellen, wie sehr ich ringe um ein Quäntchen Schreiben, um einen Hauch Ich, nein, kannst Du nicht, auch wenn Du vieles kannst, das wird Dir nicht gelingen- doch nachts die Nase an mein duftendes, winziges neues Söhnchen zu halten und so einzuschlafen, wer will das ersetzen?”
Source: Schlafen werden wir später
“If you are a sea level adapted human, then your health is at risk by working at the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories.”
“Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go”
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time by ecclesiastical authorities and their apologists. The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people’s interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined