Blog

Tag: wisdom

  • May 23rd, 2012 11:37pm

    Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

    — 老子 (Lao Tzu)

  • April 22nd, 2012 1:14am

    Hug and kiss whoever helped get you – financially, mentally, morally, emotionally – to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you’re too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don’t let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

    — Stephen King. – Commencement Address, University of Maine (May 7th, 2005). (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • March 16th, 2012 3:08pm

    But there’s another reason: I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when we’re a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition.

    — Carl Sagan – The Writing Life