Quotes

"Information professionals are not in the information business; they are in the people business."
-- Patrick Sweeney

"The very concept of 'high functioning' is predicated on the logic of capitalism and the legacy of the protestant work ethic, where a person's productivity determines their worth."
-- Devon Price, Unmasking Autism

"We are like light through a prism - each of us a fractal, beautiful in our own right, but bound together in life's kaleidoscope of color."
-- Crash Course Biology #48

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
-- Jane Goodall

"You prefer me when I'm performing, and I don't prefer you at all."
-- 210mgsmusic, Instagram

"Is life worth living in a gilded cage? Obstacles this way, blockades that way, and the bridges burnt behind."
-- Vaishno Das Bagai

"Billy asked, 'Why me?'
'Why you?' They responded, "Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is...There is no why.'"
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5, pg 97

"...the gospels actually taught this: before you kill somebody, make absolutly sure he isn't well connected."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5, pg 138

"If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but the same amount of snow."

"Hell is the largest shared construction project in imaganitive history."
-- Alice K Turner

"You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting 'Vanity', thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure."
-- John Berger

"That we have any autonomy in our ability to love ourselves is a lie and yet our current beauty climate continues to put the onus on women to fix the problems inflicted on them by a culture that refuses to acknowledge is sick."
-- Ellen Atlanta, Pixel Flesh, pg 45

"Any scarcity that exists in the world today is a manifestation of capitalism caring more about profit that human lives."
-- The_History_Wizard, Instagram (reworded for brevity)

"From its pleasing variety, the unlearned may, without intense study, gather the richest flowers of literature."
-- R. Pitkeathley

"Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be? Is today the day I die?
-- Morrie Schwartz

"Uncommunicated expectations are premedidated resentments."
-- Neil Strauss

Rules of being human

You will receive a body
There are no mistakes,
Only lessons
Lessons will be repeated until they are learned
'There' is not better than 'here'
Others are merely mirrors
What you make of your life is entirely up to you
--Cherie Carter-Scott, If Life Was a Game, These are the Rules