sensitivejess

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Humans carry around legacy behaviors and biases, jerry-rigged holdovers from earlier stages of evolution that follow their own obsolete rules. What seem like erratic, irrational choices are, in fact, strategies created long ago for solving other kinds of problems. We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to survive the savanna by policing each other.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein