Quotes

“Our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger.” — Petrarch

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

- Mary Oliver

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

CULTURE: from the Latin cultus, which means care.

Daniel Coyle • The Culture Code

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” — Charles Bukowski

“Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.” — Vincent van Gogh

“We consume, as we produce, without any concrete relatedness to the objects with which we deal; We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.”

— Erich Fromm , “The Sane Society”

Philosophors • The Wisdom Letter #054

“Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.”

― Louise Erdrich

“In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.”

Kwame Anthony Appiah (via Graham Duncan, The Playing Field)