Walking sideways gives you a wider view.
lk 240
Over the years, I’ve found only one metaphor that encapsulates the nature of what these AI power players are: empires. /…/
They justified their quest for power by the need to compete with other empires. In an arms race, all bets are off. All this ultimately served to entrench each empire’s power and to drive its expansion and progress. In the simplest terms, empires amassed extraordinary riches across space and time through imposing a colonial world order, at great expense to everyone else.
lk 17
Women in their fifties nowadays seem to shine at their work with a confidence that is quite dazzling.
lk 203
… down in the basement. There, in that big, cold, low-ceiling cinder-block room, which was my husband’s pride and joy for its uselessness…
lk 3
When you’re close to fifty, one hundred years doesn’t seem like an awfully long time. I almost feel I could live to a hundred and sixty if I try.
lk 186
… is that the death, even the sudden or accidental, “gives advance warning of its arrival.”
Rolandi laulust
lk 26
What are you looking for?
… I’m still searching. Searching for somewhere I can be accepted as I am. Just one place is all I need. Somewhere to be at peace.
lk 183
Effort, productivity, and the sacrifice of everything else in life are valorized and fetishised.
lk 48
Things change, even if you want them to stay the same. At the same time, you can try to change, but you will still remain the same.
lk 137
I went with the flow and did what was easiest at the time to achieve what I wanted.
lk 136
I wondered if this was what being a real human was: accepting you were pieces of other people too. The people you loved and the people you hurt.
lk 292
You may say that it was the book, but it’s how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might save itself.
lk 136
… tema igapäevasest lahkusest, sellest, kuidas too oli Furlongit parandanud ja julgustanud, nendest väikestest asjadest, mida ta oli öelnud ja teinud ja keeldunud tegemast ja ütlemast ning mida ta oli ilmselt teadnud – asjadest, mis kokku arvatuna moodustasid elu.
lk 120
Life is one revelation after another. Things don’t always go to plan, no matter what your circumstances. But the flip side is all the unexpected, wonderful things that you could never have imagined happening. Ultimately it’s all for the best that many things don’t turn out the way we hoped. Try not to think of upset plans or schedules as personal failure or bad luck. If you can do that, then you can change, in your own self and in your life overall.
lk 131