Candace

“The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“The power of meme evolution has brought us to an era where the federal government sees nothing wrong with mandating a national speed limit, controlling access to health care, and deciding which drugs people will be imprisoned for using and which will be subsidized by the taxpayers.”
― Richard Brodie, Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme

“Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Put simply, the growth model assumed that the overall wellbeing of a society was approximately proportional to the size of its economy, because more money or higher Gross Domestic Product (GDP) meant that more individual and social desires could be satisfied via market transactions. No matter how rich a society became, growing the economy was thought to be the only effective way to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality and unemployment, properly fund schools, hospitals, the arts, scientific research, environmental protection programs, and so on. In other words, the underlying social problem (even within the richest nations) was believed to be a lack of money.”
― Samuel Alexander, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation