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QOTD: “When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes—often, in fact—you can’t make it better.” John Green in The Anthropocene Reviewed

QOTD: “If one is generously contracted 80 years, that amounts to 29,220 days on Earth. Playing that out, how many times then, really, do I get to look at a tree? 12,395? There has to be an exact number. Let’s just say it is 12,395. Absolutely, that is a lot, but it is not infinite, … Continue reading QOTD →

QOTD: “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” Vince Lombardi

QOTD: ““Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all” Emily Dickinson

QOTD: "Zhao Bingjun asserted that a hereditary military caste such as the banner people was incompatible with the constitutionalist regime China aspired to be." Manchus and Han by Edward J.M Rhoads

QOTD: “What makes the condition (Depression) intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come—not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.” William Styron in … Continue reading QOTD →

QOTD: "Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor." Lee Min Jin, Pachinko (novel)

QOTD: “Death may be knocking on my door, but I’m not getting out of this glorious bath to answer it.” Amy Krouse Rosenthal

QOTD: “Depression is melancholy minus its charms” Susan Sontag

QOTD: “The word news tells a secret on itself, though: What’s news isn’t primarily what is noteworthy or important, but what is new. So much of what actually changes in human life isn’t driven by events, but instead by processes, which often aren’t considered news.” The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green