"Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Mom Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dust Quotes

“True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.”
“Everything doesn't have to feel good to be God”
“Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.”

Source : Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. June 2, 1996.
“Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.”

Source : Myla Kabat-zinn, Jon Kabat-Zinn (1998). “Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting”, Hyperion
“Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.”
“If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar. My gift - bad choice of words - is that I can look at you, him, her, them, whoever, and tell right away what is keeping them awake at night: money; feelings of insignificance; overwhelming boredom; evil children; job troubles; or perhaps death, in one of its many costumes, perched in the wings. What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.”
“Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.”
“Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.”

Source : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”

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