Ruben Baetens

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up

I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go

I know
nothing

but I am here to learn.”
― Shane Koyczan

“The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.”
― Andrew Zolli, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back