Giang Nguyen

“Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow[..]. It is as evil as we are positive.. the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive.. The fact is that if one tries beyond one's capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“We do not trust the stranger, or the next-door neighbour, we trust the coin they hold. If they run out of coins, we run out of trust. As money brings down the dams of community, religion and state, the world is in danger of becoming one big and rather heartless marketplace”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind