Quotes
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
“The greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe that the pessimists are the good guys.” – Packy McCormick
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“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its wings.”
Charlie Wardle
Only dead fish go with the flow.
-David Ogilvy
If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. – Richard Rohr
"The trouble with modern theories of behaviorism is not that they are wrong but that they could become true, that they actually are the best possible conceptualization of certain obvious trends in modern society."
— Hannah Arendt
— Hannah Arendt
“The common feeling that your life has not begun, that your present reality is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that'll fade as you approach, revealing that the prelude you rushed through was in fact the one to your death.” — Gurwinder Bhogal