Sequesters Quotes & Sayings

If a man wishes to guide the people in his house the right way, he must not grow angry at them. For anger does not only make one's soul impure; it transfers impurity to the souls of those with whom one is angry. — Martin Buber

New ideas emerge of their own free will if they are allowed to. — David Toop

What do you think of the ball?" her companion asked. "It is lovely," Cinderella said. "What do you enjoy most? The dancing?" "The food. It is exquisite," Cinderella said with feeling. Her dance partner released a bark of laughter, drawing glances from some of their fellow dancers. "I — K.M. Shea

And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it? — William McDonough

This paying attention is the foundational act of empathy, of listening, of seeing, of imagining experiences other than one's own, of getting out of the boundaries of one's own experience. There's a currently popular argument that books help us feel empathy, but if they do so they do it by helping us imagine that we are people we are not. Or to go deeper within ourselves, to be more aware of what it means to be heartbroken, or ill, or six, or ninety-six, or completely lost. Not just versions of our self rendered awesome and eternally justified and always right, living in a world in which other people only exist to help reinforce our magnificence, though those kinds of books and movies exist in abundance to cater to the male imagination. Which is a reminder that literature and art can also help us fail at empathy if it sequesters us in the Big Old Fortress of Magnificent Me. — Rebecca Solnit

You can only die once, to make sure it's worth it. — Vladimir Kamarisky

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior. — Sydney Smith