Brandi

“People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear