Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid - Albert Einstein
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs - Joan Didion http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/05/21/joan-didion-on-self-r…
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs - Joan Didion http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/12/20/simone-de-beauvoir-on…)
But it is the clichﾎd truism of these things that people who run are trying to escape the one person who always comes with them - AA Gill, http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_an…
Be yourself, everyone else is taken - Oscar Wilde
So are we all really being watched over by "machines of loving grace"? If you've never seen the documentaries by Adam Curtis, full as they are of quirky and strangely compelling arguments, patterns and links between the seemingly unlinked, then sit back, ingest a huge pinch of salt, take it all in and think for yourself.
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission - Arnold Bennett
Your decency does not depend on the testimony of someone else - Marcus Aurelius
You?ve got to love and look after yourself before you can love your fellow man - Oxford Muse, http://www.oxfordmuse.com/selfportrait/portrait100.html