A place for ideas, anecdotes, truisms, wise words, and advice for life.
There is another world but it is in this one.
∆ Paul Éluard or W. B. Yeats (attribution unknown)
“There is an old saying: "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.” ― Florence Scovel Shinn
“No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking at the forest”
Ilse Lehiste
“For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” — Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"You need power, only when you want to do something harmful; otherwise, love is enough to get everything done." ~Charlie Chaplin
“The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?” ― Jeremy Bentham, The Principles of Morals and Legislation
“To the monsters, we're the monsters.” — The Prophet, Station Eleven
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.” ― Seneca
The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.
— David Graeber