“A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.” — Bill Bernbach

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

– Jean-Luc Godard

Manipulation = persuasion where the intention is hidden, and the intention NEEDS to be hidden for the persuasion to “work”

-Simone Grace Seol

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.” -Jean-Paul Sartre

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. -Thich Nhat Hanh

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

“Our data is the tax we pay to participate in the attention and information economy.” -Margo Aaron

"We forget most of our past but embody all of it." — John Updike