Dawn

“We often think that the best way to become happy is to focus more on ourselves, to take better care of ourselves and put our attention on the things that make us happy. While this is important, I’ve found that it often doesn’t work.
There’s a strange kind of paradox in happiness. The more we seek it out for ourselves, the harder it often is to find.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“Wanting to hurt, degrade, insult, or discriminate against a person or a group of people because of their sexual orientation is an abomination. I got a firsthand lesson in how deep and grotesque the hate and injustice toward my LGBT comrades run in our culture.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“Either there is a meaning to the time we spend alive on this physical plane or the only meaning in this universe of stuff and energy is the meaning we create for ourselves.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

“I realized that education was everything...If you want to change the world, education is the key...it is only through education that real change can be effected.
Also, education isn’t “charity.”...Charity implies giving out something to people who are less fortunate. It implies “we have” and “you don’t have.” There’s a sense of pity attached to doling out to the poor. Education empowers. It uplifts...Charity makes people dependent. Education makes them independent.”
― Rainn Wilson, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy