Helgerson Septic Quotes & Sayings

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent "what if" scenarios
what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?
because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency. — Louis Menand

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? — F. Sherwood Rowland

Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends. — Brene Brown

I will make THIS worthwhile. I will make THIS enough until we can tackle more. THIS matters, whatever it is, and for now THIS is everything, okay? — Jay Crownover

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons. — Sonny Rollins

I believe we decide our own fate. No one has the right to dictate who we are or what we become. — Kathryn Purdie

One chair for solitude, two for friendship, and three for society. — Henry David Thoreau

You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested. — O.R. Melling

That will teach a bitch for buying the same dam shoes as mine and for opening a shop on my block...Charli — Kim Morris

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it. — Alberto Giacometti