Quotes to live by
Everybody wants to fight for their rights,
but nobody wants to talk about their responsibilities.
Someone once asked me, at an event, ‘what would you have been if you hadn’t been a writer?’
Easy. A criminal.
Easy. A criminal.
you are the only one my soul recognized as home
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves…
— “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
What if we spent less time shouting into the void and being washed over with shouting in return-and more time talking in rooms to those for whom our words are intended? If we have only so much attention to give, and only so much time on this earth, we might want to think about reinfusing our attention and our communication with the intention that b... See more
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Beware the law of unintended consequences.
In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased."
-- Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
-- Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
“We’re at the Rubicon,” Romero says. “Whether we’ve crossed it remains to be seen.”