#ought

Tant que l'homme tolère d'avoir l'âme emplie de ses propres pensées, de ses pensées personnelles, il est entièrement soumis jusqu'au plus intime de ses pensées à la contrainte des besoins et au jeu mécanique de la force. S'il croit qu'il en est autrement, il est dans l'erreur. Mais tout change quand, par la vertu d'une véritable attention, il vide son âme pour y laisser pénétrer les pensées de la sagesse éternelle. ↗

— Simone Weil

#change

Though the house itself was a fortress, still, Isaac Penn had thought to make sure that anyone who did manage to break in would be kept busy. Thus the vault was not a vault but rather a solid plug of molybdenum steel which extended into the wall for five feet. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#security-system #business

Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#compassion #cruel #cruelity #days-of-the-week #food-for-thought

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#change

Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise. ↗

— Byron Katie

#projection #suffering #thought #change

But I said wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'what's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box,' and I bought it. That was my first computer. ↗

— Sinbad

#apple #boards #bought #box #built

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ↗

— Margaret Meade

#committed #group #people #small #thought

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#cherokee #chief #election #grow #grow up

A prepared mind is always made up; it knows what it thinks and why it thinks that. When it's time to change, it just makes itself up a different way. A really made-up mind--made up properly, knowing what it knows and on what basis it knows it--is open. People close an undecided mind because they're trying to protect those sore uncertainties from getting bumped and scraped. ↗

— John Barnese

#open-minds #opinions #thought #change

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#interpretation #perception #thinking #thought #world