Nile

“Stop trying to imitate what the sages have done. That's past, and though it might have been appropriate at the time, that time is over. The present is alive. Don't use what's dead as a guide to what's alive.”
― Lao Tzu, Waterway: a new translation of the Tao Te Ching and introducing the Wu Wei Ching

“The long and short of it is that the master makes himself a slave to his slave by needing that domination to define him.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“But when a given group is used to having all of the political power, and virtually unlimited privilege to define and name the world, any
power sharing, any obligation to hear the opinions of formerly ‘subject races’ -
who would have once been called uppity niggers and lynched accordingly - can
feel like oppression.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People