Category: Books on Tap
“Once again, the library had my back. I left feeling a lot less desperate and scared than when I’d arrived.”
“I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.”
“And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.”
“Because success in life didn’t just happen. Things didn’t always work out, no matter where or how you were raised.”
“If you never get sadness, how do you know what happy is like?”
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“There was a girl.”
“Our domination of nature is a delusion.”
“If we sink a spoon into that fact, into the duff between us, we will find it teeming.”
“All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.”
“I’d rather die charging like a rhino than bleating like a goat.”
