"But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars-compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things."

-- David Foster Wallace

#Meaningful Quotes #Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”
“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.”
“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”

Source : Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “The Secret Language of Girls”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism.”
“I admire natural, untouched beauty.”
“You have to earn your right to win the game with effort and togetherness”
“Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.”
“Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.”

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