Mark

“Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Fortunately for Obiang, coup-prone African governments rolling in oil but lacking in arms and intelligence to defend their bounty had a discreet alternative to the Pentagon and the C.I.A. for defense support: Israel.”
― Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

“Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi

“Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate to another that the opinions and emotions of the target are invalid, irrational, selfish, uncaring, stupid, most likely insane, and wrong, wrong, wrong. Invalidators let it be known directly or indirectly that their targets views and feelings do not count for anything to anybody at any time or in any way.”
― David M. Allen