Almost everything that is meaningful, beautiful, life-affirming, empowering, transformational, true—it can’t be reached by shortcuts. But what we can do is make the longcuts walkable, put out footbridges and stairs, and a table where the ocean comes into view.
On Shortcuts and Longcuts
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
—Lu Xun
Safety may avoid embarrassment, but it is also boring.
— Kyle Chayka, Filterworld [pg. 52]
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky