June 2012
14 posts
Saturday
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Reinventing Ourselves
What I know is that people nowadays have a tendency to focus on the past instead of the future. We live in a nostalgic era. I propose we look forward again, and reinvent ourselves.
-As spoken by Renske Jonkman in her interview for Freunde von Freunden
Doing something about happiness
Two things I’m thinking about:
A line from the film about Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, which may be a slight paraphrase (my memory eludes me).
People used to care about doing something, now they only care about being someone.
And something wrriten by William Morris before the turn of the 20th century.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in the details of...
