Shane Smith

The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers but from asking the right questions.

The age of authority is going down. The age of maturity is going up.

when you're communicating, the three categories I want is I want know, feel, do. What do I want them to know? Information. What do I want 'em to feel? Because emotion drives action. What do I want them to do?

But actually talking over me is the hallmark of a good conversation. When people interrupt each other, when they're getting messy, when they're saying things that seem at that moment important and real, that's when a conversation sort of transcends to a higher level.

Rabbi Abraham Heschel writes, “Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath, we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul.”*

You are more sinful than you ever dared imagine. Yet you are more loved than you ever dared believe.

His influential concept of evil is that it is not a positive force but a privation or absence of good, similar to how darkness is the absence of light. This framework allows for the idea of evil being a lack of good qualities like love, truth, and peace.

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."