Jean-Paul Sartre
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness” ― Epictetus
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” – Charles Schaefer
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
“We understand victory as something that can be achieved only by one side, by an individual or a team or one competing party (tribe, nation, political body). The idea that victory can be shared, that we can all win, all succeed together remains revolutionary.” – Bernard DeKoven
2016.05.19 On Solitude and Love
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.” – Jeanette Winterson
The learning of holding space between myself and you; to love your fire but to not stand too close because you do not care who you burn down. You will burn me down.
I long for love, belonging. To be seen, held. And I want it from you. But I fear your touch. I dread your look. I anticipate your words with unease.
Is this love?
“I am convinced that standardized playgrounds are dangerous, just in another way: When the distance between all the rungs in a climbing net or a ladder is exactly the same, the child has no need to concentrate on where he puts his feet. Standardization is dangerous because play becomes simplified and the child does not have to worry about his movements.” -Helle Nebelong
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” -Jane Jacobs
“I didn’t know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It’s huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it’s proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it’s for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?” – Jeanette Winterson
“Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” – Diane Ackerman
from her book Deep Play