David Whyte

Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story; we do not know where we are in the story. We do not know who, ultimately, is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end.

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.