Lam Dang

“...suddenly [I] began to cry for no reason at all—or perhaps for everything for which I had no name.”
― Ghassan Kanafani, ما تبقى لكم

“The highest-paying jobs right now are in industries like marketing, advertising, consulting, finance, and insurance, which makes these industries appear to be very important despite being almost entirely inessential to the reproduction of society.”
― Kōhei Saitō, Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

“Today I will seek to love others not as I want them to be but as they really are.”
― Christopher Burn, Poetry Changes Lives: Daily Thoughts on Poetry and History

“An old man says to his grandson: ‘There’s a fight going on inside me. It’s a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil–angry, greedy, jealous, arrogant, and cowardly. The other is good–peaceful, loving, modest, generous, honest, and trustworthy. These two wolves are also fighting within you, and inside every other person too.’ After a moment, the boy asks, ‘Which wolf will win?’ The old man smiles. ‘The one you feed.’ 3”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History