Quotes
Authors
Jonathan Haidt

"And itâ€™s not just that â€˜we all need somebody to lean onâ€™; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more beneficial than is receiving help.â€….â€….â€….â€…We need the give and the take, we need to belong. An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment."

-- Jonathan Haidt

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“What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.”

Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.”
“Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.”
“You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.”
“It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.”
“The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade”
“For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.”
“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”

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