less is more

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin

Happiness is health plus freedom.

“the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium” Estratto di: Wilde, Oscar. “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

some things we fear are not worth fearing.

Life molds itself into the shape of your actions, - do something long enough and you become it. Fighting for peace makes more war. Loving for peace makes more peace.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. Arthur Schopenhauer

“Break this heavy chain, That does freeze my bones around! Selfish, vain, Eternal bane, That free love with bondage bound.” Estratto di: Blake, William. “Songs of Innocence and Experience.” iBooks.  Il materiale potrebbe essere protetto da copyright. William Blake

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ― Jiddu Krishnamurti  

"The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself." via Adam Elenbaas

"They humanise themselves and dehumanise their current and future victims ..."

“In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upwardly mobile—and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts  together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our  crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.” Dr Hunter S. Thomson

Via "a beautiful revolution"

" Rudy Baylor : Every lawyer, at least once in every case, feels himself crossing a line that he doesn't really mean to cross... it just happens... And if you cross it enough times it disappears forever. And then you're nothin but another lawyer joke. Just another shark in the dirty water." The Rainmaker

“YOUR LIFE DOES NOT GET BETTER BY CHANCE, IT GETS BETTER BY CHANGE.” –JIM ROHN

"Over the past 30 or so years, most people have chosen to pursue the rewards of conformity instead of the fruits of revolt. What they have been left with are ugly and stupid lives, ugly and stupid places and a planet pushed to the very edge of destruction by capitalism’s efforts to keep feeding them new promises of consumable happiness. But the thought that one is wasting one’s life is not a cheerful one, and respectable citizens everywhere have gone to considerable lengths to avoid it. They have erected elaborate architectures of lies and self-deceptions in an attempt to persuade themselves and others that their work is not petty nonsense directed by contemptible bosses to idiotic ends, that their families are not desolate bunkers of mutual contempt and shared incarceration, that their leisure and friendships are not collections of inconsequential games and insubstantial interests, that their holidays are not banal tramps through despoliation, that the ways in which they thin...

Fredrick Beuchner said ""YOUR CALLING IS WHERE YOUR PASSIONS MEETS THE WORLDS NEEDS"