A friend is, as it were, a second self
—Cicero
I’m not a very good writer, but I am an excellent rewriter
—
James A. Michener
My beautiful grandma (Taken with instagram)
If you’re going through hell, keep going
—
Winston Churchill
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it
—Aristotle
What we learn for the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. this is the tyranny of the remembering self
—Daniel Kahneman (thinking, fast and slow)
To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self
—Jonathan Franzen (nymag)
You won’t get fired if you do something, you will if you don’t do anything. Do something if it is wrong, for you can correct that, but there is no way to correct nothing
—John Stevens
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions
—Marcus Aurelius
