Life Within Limits Quotes

“When a writer uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he is aware of it or not, putting great faith in humanity.”
― Michael D. Jackson, Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want

“before the advent of any particular cultural, religious, or philosophical ethics, ethics has existed. Not as a unified, normative body of maxims, obligations, duties, or categorical imperatives,6 but as a set of recurring quandaries and questions, a sense of ethical anxiety or disquiet about the very possibility of achieving a good life,”
― Michael D. Jackson, Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want

“Well-being is therefore less a reflection on whether or not one has realized one’s hopes than a matter of learning how to live within limits. Singing,”
― Michael D. Jackson, Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want