“We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.”
― How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto
― How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? MARY OLIVER, “The Summer Day”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”
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“What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“Shall we make a new rule of life... always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
― Wonder
― Wonder
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