We can’t have hope based on outcome … radical hope has to be based on process
// Paul Hawken
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
// Bertrand Russell
“We did not inherit the planet from our parents but borrowed from our children.”
// unknowm
“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
// Mexican or Greek proverb
Creative living is choosing curiosity over fear
// Elizabeth Gilbert
Less. Better.
// Dieter Rams
“… it is the duty of a newspaper to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
// Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) > Mr. Dooley > E.K. Hornbeck in “Inherit the Wind” (1960)
“Slowness is not solely defined by the absence of speed but by the depth of experience of every moment.“
// unknown
“I love living in a home where everything is necessary.”
// Jay Schafer, Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
// Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“Everything works out in the end. If it didn’t, it’s because it hasn’t come to an end yet.”
// Fernando Sabino
“ Happiness equals reality minus expectations.”
// Tom Magliozzi – brother of Ray Magliozzi, Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers
In the US
CEO salary between
1978 and 2024
rose by 1 400%
worker’s salary rose by 18%
inflation was 30%
// Forbes
In the US
Time to Midterms
//
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wise words to live by, assembled by stephan@iD2.ca