Chris

“we should respect the poor as persons, expect to learn from them rather than thinking we can simply fix them like a mechanical object.”
― Timothy J. Keller, God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs

“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue

“Over the centuries, Americans have tacked between sanctifying the individual and celebrating community, between self-interest and social obligation, between the imagined ideals of the lone cowboy on the frontier and of the wagon train that relies on mutual aid. Alexis de Tocqueville took note of that tension and saw their coexistence as an American talent, which he called “self-interest rightly understood.”
― Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

“When someone else seeks to control what I see or hear, I have to assume they think they're superior and I'm too stupid to make up my own mind.”
― Kim N