Samuel Levenson (December 28, 1911 – August 27, 1980)
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Month: April 2019
Rainer Maria Rilke On Death
Rainer Maria Rilke (December 04, 1875 – December 29, 1926)
Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.
Betty Friedan On Inequality
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006)
The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night — she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question — ‘Is this all?’
Ronald Reagan On Freedom
Ronald Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)
You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down — up to a man’s age-old dream; the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order — or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Carl Edward Sagan On Expectations
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996)
Once we leave those domains of human experience, there’s no reason to expect the laws of nature to continue to obey our expectations, since our expectations are dependent on a limited set of experiences.
Wilhelm Nietzsche On Life
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900)
No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.
Lauren Elizabeth Oaks On Hope
Lauren E OaksI don’t do hope… Here’s the substance of it: In the modern world, I think it’s intellectually dishonest to be hopeful, but it’s equally stupid to be hopeless. You can’t live out of a hopeless life… The best thing for me to do is to develop my inner voice and to steer as close to that as I can and to act as if what I do matters. And allow the future to decide what comes of who I am… Grace is what we decide to take with us and what we leave behind.
