"Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be."

-- Laurel Nakadate

#Understanding Quotes #Bigs Quotes #Discomfort Quotes

“America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.”
“The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence....”
“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, ***** mechanicus instead of ***** sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”
“I had fun. Thatâ€™s what I believe in. Fun, flings, the sizzle. It starts as a shiver, when you see a man for the first time. And then he meets your eye and the shiver runs down your back and becomes a sizzle in your stomach and you think 'I want to dance with that man.' You dance, you have a cocktail or two, you flirt.”
“The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.”
“We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.”
“Just like a picture is worth 1000 words, a camera phone is worth 1000 cell phones!”
“Until you believe you have options, you'll continue to feel stuck.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from May 07, 2011

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