like most others in the world
they believe that failure
is caused by some factor
besides themselves
--Charles Bukowski, "the 7 horse"
"I'm a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard."
--Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise
"So this neglected space became a constructive one, and people's hopes and dreams made me laugh out loud, tear up, and they consoled me during my own tough times. It's about knowing you're not alone; it's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways; it's about making space for reflection and contemplation, and remembering what really matters most to us as we grow and change."
--Candy Chang, TED Talk, July 2012
"Now, this is, more or less, if you look at the average data of the countries — they are like this. Now that's dangerous, to use average data, because there is such a lot of difference within countries. . . . The improvement of the world must be highly contextualized, and it's not relevant to have it on regional level."
--Hans Rosling, TED Talk, February 2006
"Good ideas are always crazy until they're not."
--Larry Page
"It always seems impossible until it's done".
--Nelson Mandela
"As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person, it can be done by others."
-David Blaine, TED Talk, 2009
"Rene Girard wrote that modern society has become addicted to scapegoating; we take our anger out on sacrificial lambs just as cruelly as ancient societies did."
-Joe Mathews, Zocalo Public Square
http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/05/01/go-ahead-blame-berkeley-everyone-else/inquiries/connecting-california/
"Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted."
--Rebecca West
Learning is finding out
what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating
that you know it.
Teaching is reminding
others that they know it
just as well as you
You are all learners,
doers, teachers.
-Richard Bach, as found in Chicken Soup for the Soul
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.
--Leo Tolstoy, "Family Happiness"
passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless's remains
as found in Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
