“The only way to make the world a better place is one thing at a time… and we are doing this one thing at a time; we’re doing it one dollar at a time, one donation at a time, one gift at a time, one act of kindness at a time, and that is the way we make the world more the world we want to live in. And that means a lot to me that we are doing that together.”
“I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I’ve written there is a thread of this: a man’s seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.” — Rod Serling
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”
Let me tell you about scared. Your heart is beating so hard I can feel
it through your hands. There’s so much blood and oxygen
pumping through your brain it’s like rocket fuel. Right now you could run faster and you could fight harder, you could jump higher than ever in your life. And you are so alert it’s like you can slow down time. What’s wrong with scared? Scared is a superpower. It’s your superpower. There is danger in this room and guess what? It’s you. Do you feel it? {he indicates the lump on the bed} Do you think he feels it? Do you think he’s scared? Nah. Loser! Turn your back on him. - The Doctor, S08E04 Listen
“There’s nothing quaint about living amid history, grappling with the gifts and insufficiencies of your ancestors. To live in Bruges is to be reminded every day that there were people before you were person, which of course also reminds you that there will be people after. I think we owe both the dead and the not yet living precisely the same thing: the daily awareness that human life is ours only in trust. It’s worth remembering that seven hundred years later we don’t remember the individuals that built the Belfry, or dug the canals, we don’t remember their political affiliations or even their nationalistic identities. We remember them as a collective, just as we ourselves will be remembered as a collective, for what we did and failed to do, together.”
“Silliness, is a vastly under-appreciated quality —in humanity. I don’t know why it isn’t among our major virtues. Diligence, and kindness, and patience, and humility; AND SILLINESS.”
