#epa

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#optimism #preparation #attitude

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#compassion #grounded #oneness #receiving #separation

I love being able to go to a store, let's say... a store like Topshop or Zara or maybe even Macy's, depends on what department, and not have to look at the price tag. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#being #department #depends #even #go

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us. ↗

— Dennis Banks

#japan #overwhelming #prepared #shown #support

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#afterlife #death #ghost #grief #loss

We would like to see you departing peacefully. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#like #peacefully #see #would #you

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. ↗

— Robert Southey

#cannot #friend #heal #like #limb

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late. ↗

— Mark Twain

#late #repartee #something #think #too

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#after #aims #develop #done #hand

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead. ↗

— Martha Beck

#earth #ecosystems #fully #help #i