Status Updates From Moral Ambition: Stop Wastin...

In some circles, you'd think the highest good is not to have any impact at all. A good life is then primarily defined by what you don't do. Don't fly. Don't eat meat. Don't have kids. Reduce! Reduce! Reduce! The aim is to have the smallest foot-print possible, with your little vegetable garden and your tin house. Best-case scenario? Your impact on the planet is so negligible,you could just as well not have existed

Reminds me of that employee who said, "The best minds of my generation un ing about how to make people click ads."

I met one of these once.
How flipping depressing .

Maybe you dream of doing something else with your limited time on this planet. [...]
In that case, you'll need a book that's more than the latest guide to finding happiness. Not a book that makes life easier, but one that makes life a little harder. The kind of book you half-wish you'd never picked up at all because once you put it down, you might just have to change your life.
This is that kind of book.

“We’re on this earth to wonder and wander, to seek and to sin. We’re here to live life. And it seems saints, in their all-encompassing love for humankind, understand little of what it is to be human.”