Sondre Olsen

“A 2017 summary of the study concluded: ‘Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep people happy throughout their lives . . . Those ties protect people from life’s discontents, help to delay mental and physical decline, and are better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ, or even genes.’29”
― Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“From monogamy the rich and powerful lose and the poor and powerless gain.”
― Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times

“The French psychologist Jacques Lacan argued that the sense of an ‘I’ closely corresponded to the mass manufacture of glass mirrors.3 All roads in the late seventeenth century, writes historian Christopher Hill, led to individualism: ‘More rooms in better-off houses, use of glass in windows . . . replacement of benches by chairs –”
― Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times