Chad

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The gains in wealth and income have gone largely to a tiny share of the population, as is common knowledge by now. The people in the top 0.1 percent did fantastically well after 1980, those in the top 1 percent did very well, those below them in the top 10 percent enjoyed incomes growing at the same pace as the economy and those in the bottom 90 percent all lost ground—their incomes grew more slowly than the overall economy—during the last four decades.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

“What was it that finally brought you out?” “I wanted to die so bad. Every morning I used to get up and say, ‘One more day closer to death.’ Then I was telling my brother, and he said, ‘Why don’t you say this instead of saying that: One more day closer to healing.’ So I started saying that. And at first it didn’t mean nothing. I was just saying it just to say it. But as it went along, it started to have a meaning.”
― Andrew Forsthoefel, Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time