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Greystone Society is so covert that most people at Princeton don’t know they exist. But I’ve been fascinated by them for years.
I imagine my mother saying from wherever she is now to take every strange adventure life presents to experience the world, not shy away from it.
When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vise and makes you forget how to live life without them.
home became the friends that kept showing up, the spaces that welcomed me.
It’s strange how after you lose someone, they start to fade piece by piece, until all that’s left are memories that could slip through your fingers like water.
“ ‘Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.’
“The world does not make sense. Humans are not rational decision makers—we are driven by our wants, our needs, our fears.”
education means choice, and choice means freedom. I wanted to make her proud.
Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me. —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow
How often, in the world, is silence what allows horrible people to get away with their crimes?
