"One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in."

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Source : "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

Gaston Bachelard

“Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.”

Source : "Rich "Goose" Gossage". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
“Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.”
“Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.”
“Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.”
“But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.”
“I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.”

Source : Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.16, Penguin
“Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.”
“I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.”

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