Ian Cunningham

“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

“To this day, and no doubt for good reasons, suffering remains the almost exclusive preoccupation of professional psychology. Journals in the field have published forty-five thousand articles in the last thirty years on depression, but only four hundred on joy.40”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements