#ono

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that. ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#life

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock. ↗

— Donella H. Meadows

#society #sustainability #life

Then the shit hit the fan. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile. ↗

— Steven E. Landsburg

#humor #life

Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that the goal of life for many has become a relief of tension. ↗

— Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

#goal-of-life #meaning-of-life #sex #tension #life

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#honor #humility #life

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. ↗

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

#celestial #honor #life #pathway #pierre

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern. ↗

— Herman E. Daly

#morality #selfishness #life

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky? ↗

— Damon Knight

#onomatopoeia #prose-poetry #urban-life #life