#lit

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead. ↗

— Henry Adams

#washington #education

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock. ↗

— Donella H. Meadows

#society #sustainability #life

The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up. ↗

— Connie Sellecca

#actually #beach #before #being #came

Families start out, most of the time, with unconditional acceptance of one another. That acceptance starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. Somewhere in there, between childhood and adulthood, the ability to distinguish right versus wrong is born. ↗

— Bart Hopkins

#family #life #literature #morality #texas

The truth is that we live in a world that diminishes possibilities. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#possibility #life

I would live forever if I could, but not like this. ↗

— Gary Young

#gary-young #immortality #live #live-forever #not-like-this

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#reality-of-life #society #life

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ↗