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QOTD: “Man, life’s going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing.” Mozasu in Pachinko (novel)

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