"Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not aÂ step backward."

-- Yvon Chouinard

#Steps Quotes #Excess Quotes #Sufficiency Quotes

“The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.297, Macmillan
“And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
“The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.”
“Oh my God â€” I'm turning into my mother!”
“Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross.”
“What I have to do now is figure where my passion is, and follow my heart; I've proven that if I have the passion for something then I can succeed. I haven't been listening to my heart in the last little while.”
“We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'”
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 42), 1986.

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