"...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know..."

-- John M. Geddes

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“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick. Her hair was being pulled. Or she was pulling someone's hair. And a part of you was drawn to her, and a part of you resisted--wanting to ride off on your bicycle, kick a stone, remain uncomplicated. In the same breath you felt the strength of a man, and a self-pity that made you feel small and hurt. Part of you thought: Please don't look at me. If you don't, I can still turn away. And part of you thought: Look at me.”
“The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.”
“I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.”
“The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.”
“Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.”
“Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.”

Source : 'Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour' (1665) pt. 1
“God does not accept weak, boring, halfhearted worship!”
“Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 8, 2017

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