Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
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Why You Should Tilt at Windmills (and Other Quixotic Reflections) (excerpt)
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Margaret Atwood • The Robber Bride
“Playing and goofing off is a really important aspect of keeping optimism alive.”
Maddy Lauria • Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
Benjamin Santos Gentaaeon.co
It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.
Rebecca Solnit • A Field Guide to Getting Lost
No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
To try to do two nearly impossible things at once - understand ourselves as limited by circumstances and yet continue to pursue our projects as if we are truly in control.