#kindlehighlight

Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me? ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love

that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

Kids: they dance before they learn “there is anything that isn’t music. ” —William Stafford ↗

— Steven Curtis Chapman

#music

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN ↗

— Frank I. Luntz

#art

Today, I look forward and I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness. ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#design

Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole. ↗

— Tina Fey

#crazy

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#games

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. ↗

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#observation

This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#unexpected

When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. ↗

— Jason Fried

#decisions