"Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it."

-- Henry Beston

#Night Quotes #Vulgar Quotes #Reverence Quotes

“...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.”
“Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme”
“When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2018). “Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, p.190, Profile Books
“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.â€â€œThe better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.â€â€œIn 20 or 30 years, youâ€™ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.â€â€œThe rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.â€â€œThe key thing about all the worldâ€™s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we donâ€™t get collectively smarter, weâ€™re doomed.”

Source : "Intelligence in the Internet Age". New York Times, September 19, 2005.
“Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.”
“I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.”
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man”
“I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.”

Source : "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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