Two Thoughts (27 August - September 2)
Sunday, 27 August
Two thoughts from José Saramago
"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered."
"Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us."
Monday, 28 August
Two thoughts from Luís de Camões
“Times change, as do our wills, What we are is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities.”
“Let the world tremble as it senses all you are about to accomplish.”
Tuesday, 29 August
Two thoughts from Frank Herbert
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.”
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
Wednesday, 30 August
Two thoughts from Jeff Keller
“Life doesn’t reward those who refuse to expose themselves to difficulties and challenges.”
“[If] your thoughts don’t change, your results won’t change.”
Thursday, 31 August
Two thoughts from Gaur Gopal Das
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
“Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Friday, 1 September
Two thoughts from Henry Jenkins
“In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information.”
“We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.”
Saturday, 2 September
Two thoughts from Katherine Boo
“In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.”
“A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.”
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