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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Patagonia follows through on the dirtbag ethos in both its product line and its corporate giving. One doesn't compensate for the other. Patagonia uses organic cotton and recycled fleece and shell materials, so that its manufacturing takes as little toll as possible on the environment. The products themselves are designed to be versatile rather than particular, so that consumers don't have to purchase an entire product line in order to be equipped, and so that hikers can get by with the fewest items”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box
Tagged: US Goverment
“Build the great arch of unimagined bridges.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Great Enthusiasm, Great Works, Soothing Language, Ambition, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Your blood flowed darkly.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Blood
“Anxious, we keep longing for a foothold — we, at times too young for what is old and too old for what has never been.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Home Is Where, Young and Old
“For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Tagged: Average Everydayness, Banality, Enthusiasm, Fighting For The Ideal, Great Work
“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”
— Hermann Hesse, Demian
“I watched because— God help the human race— there's nothing harder not to watch than two men fighting.”
— Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Tagged: Fighting
“In short, I set out to write about the darkness in men, but I ended up with a book about how men keep the darkness in check.”
— Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
“as soon as he had grasped the fact that I was unhappy he had said to my mother: 'Go and comfort him.' Mamma stayed that night in my room, and it seemed that she did not wish to mar by recrimination those hours which were so different from anything that I had had a right to expect, for when Françoise (who guessed that something extraordinary must have happened when she saw Mamma sitting by my side, holding my hand and letting me cry unchided) said to her: 'But, Madame, what is young master crying for?' she replied: 'Why, Françoise, he doesn't know himself: it's his nerves. Make up the big bed for me quickly and then go off to your own.' And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a punishable offence but as an involuntary ailment which had been officially recognised, a nervous condition for which I was in no way responsible: I had the consolation of no longer having to mingle apprehensive scruples with the bitterness of my tears; I could weep henceforth without sin. I felt no small degree of pride, either, in Françoise's presence at this return to humane conditions which, not an hour after Mamma had refused to come up to my room and had sent the snubbing message that I was to go to sleep, raised me to the dignity of a grown-up person, brought me of a sudden to a sort of puberty of sorrow, a manumission of tears. I ought”
— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way
“I drag myself to the gym like a shift worker dragging himself to the factory. I limp onto the mat feeling tired and old, and after I warm up and get going . . . I have so much fun. The blubbery, congested sensation of incipient middle age gives way, and I feel young again, and strong. When I've competed well, and especially when I've held my own in the sparring, I leave the gym feeling so awake, my whole system revving with something purer than a runner's high. I drive home knowing that I've been going through life half asleep, and I feel a euphoric gratitude for my living muscle and bone and blood.”
— Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Tagged: Exercise, Muscle, Renewal, Strategies for Renewal, Youth