Quotes

The currency of everyday life is that inner-muscle, that resilience.
—Bear Grylls, Resilience

Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.
—Michael Brooks, Systems

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
—Carl Sagan, On Truth

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.
—Richard P. Feynman

Always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor never the tormented.
—Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor

Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection.

It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult.

Being a geek is extremely liberating.

—Simon Pegg, Being a Geek

I am so tired of waiting.
Aren’t you,
for the world to become good
and beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
and cut the world in two–
and see what worms are eating
at the rind.
—Langston Hughes, Tired (poem)

If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else
—Toni Morrison, Power and Empowerment

I have a deadly nightshade
So twisted does it grow
With berries black as midnight
And a skull as white as snow
The vicar’s cocky young son
Came to drink my tea
He touched me without asking
Now he’s buried ’neath a tree.
— Traditional Girl’s Skipping Rhyme