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“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.

“Nobody listens anymore. I can’t talk to the walls because they’re yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.”

“Kā jūs varat saprast okeānu, ja nespējat saprastues savā starpā?”

“Kas gan ir veiksme, mans draugs? Tā nav nekas vairāk, kā vien gatavības un izdevības apvienojums.”

“Jebkurā traģēdijā ir arī savs ieguvums, ja vien cilvēki pacenstos to ieraudzīt.”

“People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it’s better to be with the sheep, who don’t say anything. And better still to be alone with one’s books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you’re talking to people, they say some things that are so strange you don’t know how to continue the conversation.”

“If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about their own.”

“Bagātnieka pirmais bauslis - investē!
Pirmais bauslis visiem pārējiem - pērc!”

“Nabadzības un slimību radīto ciešanu un pazemojumu vēl aizvien pasaulē netrūkst, taču lielākajā daļā valstu neviens vairs nemirst badā. Īstenībā cilvēki daudzās sabiedrībās vairāk riskē nomirt no aptaukošanās nekā no badošanās.”

“Ja jūs Konfūcijam, Budam, Jēzum un Muhamedam teiktu, ka cilvēka prāta izpratnei un tā slimību ārstēšanai jums vispirms jāapgūst statistika, viņi būtu ļoti izbrīnīti.”

“Kultūra parasti skandina, ka aizliedz vienīgi pretdabisko, taču no bioloģiskā skatapunkta nekas nav pretdabisks. Viss, kas iespējams, jau pēc definīcijas ir arī dabisks.”

“Evolūcija bija pielāgojusi cilvēkus rāpties ābelē un dzīties pēc gazelēm, nevis attīrīt laukus no akmeņiem un stiept turp ūdeni”.

“Ja akmens laikmeta sieviete uzgāja vīģeskoku, vissaprātīgākais bija apēst pēc iespējas vairāk augļu tieši tur, kamēr līdz tiem nebija tikuši paviāni. Instinkts, kas mudina aprīt kalorijām bagātu ēdienu, sēž mums gēnos. Pat tad, ja mēs tagad dzīvojam greznos apartamentos ar visām ērtībām.”

“Milzīgas savstarpēji nepazīstamu ļaužu masas spēj veiksmīgi sadarboties, ja tās tic kopīgiem mītiem.”

“Sapiensi spēj viegli kooperēties ar jebkuru skaitu svešinieku. Lūk, kapēc pār pasauli valda sapiensi, bet skudras pievāc mūsu ēdiena paliekas un šimpanzes sēž krātiņos zoodārzos.”

“Bet varbūt tieši tāpēc mūsu senči arī iznīcināja neandertāliešus: pārāk līdzīgus, lai tos ignorētu, bet pārāk citādus, lai paciestu?”

“Why do you care that I’m dead when you’re still so afraid to live?”

“We all get dealt cards. Some of us get better cards than others. And ehile it’s easy to get hung up on our cards, and feel we got screwed over, the real game lies in the choices we make with those cards, the risks we decide to take, and the consequences we choose to live with.” Winners are not necessarily the people with best cards

“The anger is merely the messanger for my fist in your face. Don’t blame the messenger. Blame my fist (or your face).”

“I was in love with the result - the image of me on stage, people cheering, me rocking out, pouring my heart into what I was playing - but I wasn’t in love with the process. And because of that, I failed at it. Repeatedly. Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”

“If I ask you, what do you want from life? and you say something like, I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like, your response is so common and expected that it doesn’t really mean anything.” Guiltyy, šī gramata exposo mani🥲

“Don’t hope for a life without problems. There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.”

“Ironically , this fixation on the positive - on what’s better, what’s superior - only serves to remind us over and over again pf what we are not, of what we lack, of what we should jave been but failed to be. After all, no truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she’s happy. She just is.”

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”