The measure of intellect is judgment.
The measure of wisdom is silence.
The measure of ethics is transparency.
In today’s world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life. People’s income, family structure, housing, employment, and educational opportunities affect not only their risk of developing traumatic stress but also their access to effective help to address it. Poverty, unemployment, inferior schools, social isolation, widespread availability of guns, and substandard housing all are breeding grounds for trauma. Trauma breeds further trauma; hurt people hurt other people.
Bessel Van der Kolk
In life the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you’re playing.
while driving across country on a roadtrip. You never want to run out, but the point of life is not to go on a tour of gas stations.
when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
If you aren’t afraid of the truth, then you’re nowhere near it.
We cannot trust our brain whether what we perceive is real, nor on whether we know the real motives for our actions.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar
Mark Twain
The explanation is for everything else but explaining.
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live
Honore de Balzac
Evolution does not tell you anything about whether or not God exists; it simply proves that, if he does exist, he really hates top-down central planning.
Attributions rob quotations of their power, because our relationship to the speaker steals our attention from the idea that he spoke
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You’re only allowed three great women in your lifetime. They come along like the great fighters, every ten years
Bronx Tales
True friends do stuff for you when it’s inconvenient for them.