
„We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
The grand old man of American psychiatry on what he has learnt about life (and death) in his still-flourishing career, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/irvin-d-yalom-interview-the-grand-old-man-of-american-psychiatry-on-what-he-has-learnt-about-life-10134092.html
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
— Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943
— Jean Vanier Canadian humanitarian 1928 - 2019
Zdroj: Community And Growth
— Lena Waithe American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1984
On how women should embrace their true selves in “Lena Waithe's Message to Women: 'Stop Giving a S--- What Other People Think'” https://variety.com/video/lena-waithe-message-to-women-variety-cover-shoot/ in Variety Magazine
— Willie Nelson American country music singer-songwriter. 1933
Willie Nelson Speaks Out on Medical Marijuana, Barbra Streisand and More, August/September 2014, August 5, 2014, AARP Magazine, AARP http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/music/info-2014/willie-nelson-country-music-legend.html,
— Cheryl Strayed author, memoirist, blogger 1968
Zdroj: Brave Enough
— Irvin D. Yalom American psychotherapist and writer 1931
How to Die, The Atlantic, October 2017 Issue https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-to-die/537906/
— Cat Stevens British singer-songwriter 1948
Interview on CBS News Sunday Morning (30 November 2006)
Kontext: Here's a chance, I think, for us to kind of remind ourselves, of those things we all commonly enjoy and love and share, try to get back together. You know, singing out for a more peaceful world today, I think, can only do good. … I do believe that … a lot of Muslims have yet to learn, you know, the incredible great history and contribution of Islamic civilization — and its become very, if you like, in some way puritanical — that puritanical approach will become narrower and narrower and even become more fragmented. Its that vast middle ground where people actually live, you know, that we have to reclaim; and in that area, everybody should be able to live together. And I don't think that God sent us prophets and books to fight about these books and these prophets. But they were telling us, actually, how to live together. If we ignore those teachings — whichever faith you belong, you profess, then I think we'll be finding ourselves in an even deeper mess.
— Randy Pausch American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design 1960 - 2008
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Kontext: It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. I assure you I've done a lot of really stupid things, and none of them bother me. All the mistakes, and all the dopey things, and all the times I was embarrassed — they don't matter. What matters is that I can kind of look back and say: Pretty much any time I got chance to do something cool I tried to grab for it — and that's where my solace comes from.
— Mata Amritanandamayi Hindu spiritual leader and guru 1953
— Gloria Steinem American feminist and journalist 1934
The Humanist interview (2012)
Kontext: I think most social justice movements take the words that are used against them and make them good words. That’s partly how “black” came back into usage. Before we said “colored person,” or “Negro.” Then came “Black Power,” “Black Pride,” and “Black Is Beautiful” to make it a good word.
"Witch" was another word I remember reclaiming in the 1970s. There was a group called Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH). They all went down to Wall Street and hexed it. And Wall Street fell five points the next day; it was quite amazing! “Queer” and “gay” are other examples. … I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them. Actually, I had done that earlier with “slut” because when I went back to Toledo, Ohio, which is where I was in high school and junior high school, I was on a radio show with a bunch of women. A man called up and called me “a slut from East Toledo,” which is doubly insulting because East Toledo is the wrong side of town. I thought, when I’d lived here I would have been devastated by this. But by this time I thought, you know, that’s a pretty good thing to be. I’m putting it on my tombstone: "Here lies the slut from East Toledo."
— Sophie B. Hawkins American musician 1967
— Manuel Rivera-Ortiz American photographer 1968
Biographical profile
Official site
Kontext: I make images of the living for the living. I try to celebrate life. Iconic photographer Dorothea Lange, once said ‘I too have come to lend my voice to those least able to have a voice of their own.’ I agree.
— Kristin Hannah American writer 1960
Zdroj: Firefly Lane
— Roger Manganelli American musician 1973
— Jonathan Safran Foer, kniha Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Zdroj: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close