Joe Shaw

“The Platte!” I gasped. “None other,” Leeds said. “That’s the sorriest river in America. You’ve heard all the jokes about the Platte. ‘Too thick to drink, too thin to plow.’ That’s a nothing river.”
― James A. Michener, Centennial

“Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Frankl saw three possible sources for meaning: in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person), and in courage during difficult times. Suffering in and of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it. At one point, Frankl writes that a person “may remain brave, dignified and unselfish, or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”
― Nietzsche