“A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitutes for me an interesting face. For this reason the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarcely been touched by life.” -Doris Ulmann

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long time ago.” -Warren Buffett

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don’t particularly like. -Soichiro Honda

Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté. -Margaret Atwood

(On Henry Urbach) “He asked us to think not just through the ideas of the built environment, but around them and against them. Every act of curating, teaching, or writing was a chance to dismantle a preconceived notion and think differently, deeper and with more curiosity, about the world around us.”

“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.” -Pema Chodron

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. -Pema Chodron

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive. -John Dewey

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” — Maya Angelou

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. -Vaclav Havel