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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of dedicated people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.

I believed I should not allow her to love me. I held hard to the idea I should be content to ride out the remainder of my life without complaint, a burned-out case, an absurd hodgepodge of broken parts, a beggar who no longer wished for a horse. But she was also a woman, beautiful and vibrant, and I was a man — in a wheelchair, true — but a man full of heat and desire that sometimes rendered the chair irrelevant.

Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.

The sooner you quit something that stinks, the sooner you can find something that doesn’t.

Just the guitar, ok cool

These are the groups most heavily profiled and punished through prohibitionist law. I don’t think this is an accident. These laws have political support precisely because they target people that voters don’t want to see or know about.

I’m angry that horrible people can treat good people that way and get away with it.

In you I’m lost.