Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
He was not so much a vision as a mass of energy configured in a deeply familiar way as my father.
Sebastian Junger • In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
a man who lived as if the wild places of the hemisphere were his for the taking.
Rich Cohen • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
A slaughter was the likely outcome of the warriors’ bravery. They died as heroes, their wives as slaves.
Tara Westover • Educated: A Memoir
“gonzo,” to stick his or her neck out,
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
All it takes is one person to change everything.
Brett Leve • Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community
Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world. —José Ortega y Gasset
Jon Krakauer • Into Thin Air
But what makes trauma trauma is that it changes us in ways that are new and frightening and rarely understood.
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World
"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective." – Kurt Vonnegut