Friendship was a series of exchanges: of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information.
– from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara
Ambition without implementation is a ridiculous …
Ambition without implementation is a ridiculous delusion.
– from The 5 AM Club book by Robin Sharma
Silicon Valley is awash in wooden …
Silicon Valley is awash in wooden Montessori toys and shrouded in total screen bans. Parents at work talk about how they don’t allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.
– from Careless People book by Sarah Wynn-Williams
When I’m in turmoil, when I …
When I’m in turmoil, when I can’t think, when I’m exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It’s just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
– from Storm Front book by Jim Butcher
My love for you is a …
My love for you is a journey that I hope will have no ending.
– from The Personal Librarian book by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The past cannot remember the past …
The past cannot remember the past. The future can’t generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
– from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance book by Robert Pirsig
Time is the great eraser, both …
Time is the great eraser, both of sorrow and of joy.
– from The Palace of Illusions book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The great blessing of being a …
The great blessing of being a journalist is that you get to witness world events – to interface with the players, to experience the smells and tastes of it all.
– from 10% Happier book by Dan Harris
Lately I’ve been wondering whether having …
Lately I’ve been wondering whether having all of our material needs met from birth has been a positive aspect of our lives. It seems to me it may have resulted in some absence of yearning or striving in us. The quest, I like to call it. When one’s parents or grandparents have already quested and conquered, what is there for subsequent generations to do?
– from The God of the Woods book by Liz Moore
Most countries like Facebook. Germany’s an …
Most countries like Facebook. Germany’s an outlier. The Germans disapprove of everything Facebook stands for. It wasn’t very long ago that Germans lived with networks of spies and informants in their country – the Stasi in East Germany and the Gestapo before that. As a result, they have a fundamental suspicion of anyone who wants to gather lots of personal information – which of course is Facebook’s business model. Where others see a website that’s good for wasting time, Germans see a comprehensive surveillance tool that needs muscular oversight.
– from Careless People book by Sarah Wynn-Williams