"It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest."

-- Michael Scheuer

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”

Source : Neal Stephenson (1993). “Snow Crash”, Spectra
“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experienceâ€“twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.”
“I have never been to a brothel. I don't think I could go into one.”
“Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters”

Source : Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Ellen Langer, Susan David, Christina Congleton (2017). “Mindfulness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)”, p.19, Harvard Business Press
“Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!”
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”

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