"If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?""

-- Daniel Quinn

#Children Quotes #Future Quotes #People Quotes

“On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.”
“Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz.”
“I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.16, Granta Books
“I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking Well, maybe this is a time loop”

Source : "Loopy". BBC Interview, bbc.adactio.com. 2002.
“I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.”
“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.”

Source : Cotton Mather (1977). “Magnalia Christi Americana, books I and II”
“I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.”

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