Surprising

One of the most surprising things about getting older is how unresolved and unsure one continues to feel.
--Alain de Botton

Understand

If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.
--Carl Sagan

Sweat and Strain

And how else should an angel land on earth but with utmost difficulty? If we are to be visited by angels we will have to call them down with sweat and strain...and the efforts we expend to draw the heavens to an earthly place may well leave us too exhausted to appreciate the fruits of our labors: an angel, even with torn robes, and ruffled feathers, is in our midst.
--Tony Kushner

Responding

Most of our experience is that of being a witness. We see and hear and smell other things. I think being alive is responding.
--Mark Strand

Reinforcement

Love is the use of positive reinforcement.
--B.F. Skinner

If You Are

If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.
--Lao Tzu

Notion

I hate the notion that celebrities deserve to be treated with some kind of deference.
--David Letterman

Stupid Things

There is a lot of fear and dysfunction infused into the popular culture by the media industrial complex. They pick up on the insecurities we are all born with and combine it with the "monkey-see-monkey-do" psychology we are all vulnerable to and make us do stupid things because "everyone else is doing it."
--Sekhar Sundaram

Over

I've learned to trust people when they say it's over. They don't want to say it. So it's usually the truth.
--Matthew Weiner

A Little Healthier

What are we here for if not to enjoy life eternal, solve what problems we can, give light, peace and joy to our fellow-man, and leave this dear fucked-up planet a little healthier than when we were born.
--Henry Miller

The Universe

If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be.
--Milton Glaser

Digital Feudalism

We live in a world of Digital Feudalism, The land many live on is owned by someone else, be it Facebook or Twitter or Tumblr, or some other service that offers up free land and the content provided by the renter of that land essentially becomes owned by the platform that owns the land.
--Anthony De Rosa

Worry

Sociologists sometimes call the management of familial duties "worry work," and the person who does it the "designated worrier," because you need large reserves of emotional energy to stay on top of it all.
--Judith Shulevitz

Desire

Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
--Thomas Merton

Character

Sports doesn't build character. Sports reveals character.
--Heywood Hale Broun

Get Out

You always want to get out a year early, not one or two years too late.
--Dr. Bill Simmons

Regularly

The grounds for hope are simply that we don't know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly.
--Rebecca Solnit

Gangs

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms? A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention.
--St. Augustine

Privilege

Being able to turn a blind eye to things that don't happen to you is the essence of privilege.
--Cera Byer

Slaves

We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.
--Edward R. Murrow