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Highlights tagged "perspective"

That’s the way it is: wars always kill the sons, never the fathers who took the decisions.
—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
# war # parents # resentment # insignificance # perspective
Existentialism Is a Humanism = 194 SAR. If you just remember that, your night will not have been wasted.
—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
# perspective # reading
Men just have to make their mark on a book, put in their corrections, their opinions.
—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
# privilege # queer # feminism # sexism # perspective
When that fanatic Dewey classified literature, he set up a monument of ethnocentrism
—Sophie Divry, The Library of Unrequited Love. Highlighted
# perspective # reading
In the 21st-century, careers and lives don’t roll off an assembly line. We have to put the pieces together ourselves.
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# creativity # perspective # goals # twenties # self-concept # liminal-space
“How are you free? You have free time during the day when most everyone you know is working. You’re living on the edge of poverty. You can’t do anything with that time.”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# self-concept # liminal-space # perspective
I told her I wasn’t so sure, and that an extended period of navel-gazing is usually counterproductive for twentysomethings.
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# twenties # perspective
...While most therapists would agree with Socrates that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” a lesser-known quote by American psychologist Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: “The unlived life is not worth examining.”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# perspective # goals
I have seen countless twentysomethings spend too many years living without perspective. What is worse are the tears shed by thirtysomethings and fortysomethings because they are now paying a steep price...
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# twenties # growth # age # perspective
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. —David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, “Time”
—Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Highlighted
# liminal-space # perspective # growth
She goes quiet for a little while. Remembers something. ‘“I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.”’ ‘Is that . . .?’ ‘Montaigne himself.”
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# growth # honesty # perspective
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# insignificance # perspective # self-concept
The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# self-concept # growth # learning # perspective # resentment # conservatism # politics
Maybe someday soon we can try another park bench. I don’t know. I can’t know.
—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time. Highlighted
# insignificance # perspective # growth # friendship
A thought occurs to him. He stops working on his device entirely. “You hear light from space, question? You hear stars, planets, asteroids, question?”
—Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary. Highlighted
# perspective