So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody including yourself will know that you are alive?
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel
I carry a knife with me so I can cut images out of cardboard boxes. I'm always cutting cardboard. Especially every Thursday, which is recycling day.
What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.
Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.