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Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual read more
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil read more
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present read more
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like read more
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. -John Steinbeck.
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be read more
To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works
and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue
always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful;
and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
