#mo

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#culture #culture-and-imperialism #modernity #progress #sherpas

overhead the birds are calling, their cries seeming to feel the air. As i watch, they rise.. flinging their bodies against the sky, intent upon the moment, spinning and turning like embers of smoke upon the air. I envy them, this life of theirs.. the way they live so free of themselves, they are without past, without future, an exaltation of life beating in so many parts, rising up into the infinity of space. watching them i find i want to weep, and yet i have no tears. ↗

— Thomas F. Monteleone

#life

You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY, OR You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION. The choice is always yours... ↗

— Manoj Arora

#financial-freedom #money #freedom

Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product. ↗

— Manoj Arora

#money #problem-solving #problems #freedom

I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage. ↗

— Solange nicole

#money #poetic #society #solange #life

Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#immortality #life #life

Hippos are the very definition of Disney cute. There is no way you could look at a big, fat, squishy, huggable hippo and not think, "Id she could talk like a human, she would sound just like Jada Pinkett Smith and be oh so sassy." You would totally name her Sassy-baskets, and she would be your tutu-wearing, ballet-dancing, strut-walking pal for life. Just you and Sassy-baskets against the world! ↗

— Cracked.com

#humor #internet #sassy #zombies #life

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

Accepting the world’s realities, even when you didn’t understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life. ↗

— Pamela Morsi

#the-lovesick-cure #life

I tried to make my life colorful with basic colors Red, Green and Blue....... ohh god... my perfection in blending made it white !!! now again confused…. should go with :( or :) ↗

— Saket Assertive

#emotion #life #philosophy #life