Chris

“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

“We live our lives surrounded by the darkness... I want to try to be a light for others.”
― Kay O'Neill, The Moth Keeper

“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

“The way to judge people wasn't to look at how they acted toward people they wanted to impress; it was to look at the way they treated those who could do nothing for them.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books