Eric Wingenbach

“Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely — yet not entirely — forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

“It is an unwavering rule for those in power that, when it comes to heads, it is best to cut them off before they start thinking, afterwards, it might be too late.”
― José Saramago, Seeing

“your cellphone, she is feeding that flame. Cohesion happens not when members of a group are smarter but when they are lit up by clear, steady signals of safe connection.”
― Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

“But about my Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now. One of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By