Rosie

“Don't you think that's a disease of the contemporary age? It feels like these days our value is determined by how much effort we make from day to day. That matters even more than our results. After a while, the concept of effort starts to become mixed up with things feeling difficult, and then you reach the point where the person seen as the most admirable is the one suffering the most. I think that's the reason people are so vicious towards Manako Kajii. She refuses to live that life, refuses to suffer.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“The first smile of the day was important. It determined how the dozens of others that day would turn out.”
― Yeon Somin, The Healing Season of Pottery

“In the long run, we're all alive, but economically irrelevant. Unless we build an economy where relevance is not economic.”
― Emad Mostaque, The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics

“Your economic life expectancy is shrinking.
Not your job. Not your career.
Your relevance as a human being.”
― Emad Mostaque, The Last Economy: A Guide to the Age of Intelligent Economics