Deborah

“The financial sector provides ample rewards for those who agree with them: lucrative consultancies, research grants, and the like. The documentary raises a question: Could this have influenced some economists’ judgments?”
― Joseph E. Stiglitz, The Great Divide

“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness. Only I did not think it would be so soon. Or that he would precede us. Two passing temporarinesses developed feelings for one another. Two puffs of smoke became mutually fond. I mistook him for a solidity, and now must pay. I am not stable and Mary not stable and the very buildings and monuments here not stable and the greater city not stable and the wide world not stable. All alter, are altering, in every instant. (Are you comforted?) No. (It”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“We don't quit playing because we grow old; We grow old because we quit playing.”
― Sukhraj S. Dhillon, Forever Young: How To Fight The Aging Process

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow