Scott Alan

“Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

“Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had available to her were worlds with humans in them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It seems impossible to live without hurting people.'

'That's because it is.'

'So why live at all?'

'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound with chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness; that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberators. We don’t forgive to help the other person. We don’t forgive for others. We forgive for ourselves. Forgiveness, in other words, is the best form of self-interest. This is true both spiritually and scientifically”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World