Jason Johnson

“Freedom grants the opportunity for greater meaning, but by itself there is nothing necessarily meaningful about it. Ultimately, the only way to achieve meaning and a sense of importance in one’s life is through a rejection of alternatives, a narrowing of freedom, a choice of commitment to one place, one belief, or (gulp) one person.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost citizens of the earth and members of the earth’s ecosystem more than as citizens of a nation or members of a religion. This identity disruption creates fissures and fractures among existing elites who are still managing parochial national, cultural, ethnic, or religious systems.11”
― Brian D. McLaren, The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian

“By focusing on those things that are within his power—his own will and perception—and detaching himself from the things that are not—health, death, the actions of others, natural disasters, and so on—he attains the inner peace (eudaimonia) of the wise and just man.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“While onlies have no at-home experience fighting with other children, they have another skill that siblings may not have. Onlies learn to fight with their parents and consequently have excellent verbal skills.”
― Susan Newman, Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only