#thou

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. ↗

— Zac Efron

#bring #did #dork #down #goofy

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#anybody #feel #guess #having #i

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#about #ago #brash #career #century

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#give #greatest #regret #up #without

It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#altar #around #been #certainly #christianity

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#energetic #even #fairly #happiness #i

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#across #ad #afraid #am #arm

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#directly #hierarchy #intervention #much #need

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#daily life #deep #exists #knows #life