You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
~ Marcel Proust
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Ten o’clock to one qualifies as late at night in southern California, where hardly anything reputable’s open after nine.
~ David Foster Wallace
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No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.
~ Mark Twain
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We have a crisis of leadership in America because our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders, made us complacent, and for too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don’t know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don’t know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they’re worth doing in the first place.
~ William Deresiewicz
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