It is only in our decisions that we are important.
jean-paul sartre
You know it’s very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.
alice neel
it’s a long one, but well worth it. a fascinating lecture at stanford university from macarthur fellow robert sapolsky.
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
desmond tutu
We’re brought up in a culture that tells us, “you are what you do.” When people say, “Tell me about yourself”, we immediately talk about career, as if that is a complete and perfect definition of who and what we are.
Alan Arkin (via lanipauli)
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
hemmingway
for manisha
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
sartre
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Hemmingway
And Picasso adds, do you suppose Michael Angelo would have been grateful for a gift of a piece of renaissance furniture, no he wanted a Greek coin.
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