January 2, 2012
December 26, 2011
Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph CampbellDecember 8, 2011
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.
Frida KahloOctober 17, 2011
Justice is what love looks like in public.
Cornel WestOctober 5, 2011
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011October 1, 2011
The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
Erin Morgenstern, The Night CircusSeptember 21, 2011
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek proverbJuly 28, 2011
Naturally, the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Hitler’s Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII
May 2, 2011
Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?
Brian McLaren, via RedditApril 14, 2011
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut