Anna

“Wonder is the very engine of life.”
― Erling Kagge, Silence: In the Age of Noise

“The individual who acts with bias engages with an expectation instead of reality. That expectation is assembled from the artifacts of culture: headlines and history books, myths and statistics, encounters real and imagined, and selective interpretations of reality that confirm prior beliefs. Biased individuals do not see a person. They see a person-shaped daydream.”
― Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World

“The struggle lies between the ears, not in the feet,’ I wrote after the journey to the North Pole. If the body’s able but we can’t convince the head, it isn’t easy to get anywhere.”
― Erling Kagge, Philosophy for Polar Explorers

“Sorrow like vapor, sorrow like smoke, sorrow like quicksand, sorrow like an ocean, sorrow louder and fuller than the church songs, sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go.”
― Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World