Su Myint Myat Moe

“You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim fucking Holden, so the bar’s not low.” The”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“The Quiet Life

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

Whose herd with milk, whose fields with
bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter, fire.

Blest, who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years, slide soft away
In health of body; peace of mind;
Quiet by day;

Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please
With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.”
― Alexander Pope

“ပန်းချီတို့၊ ပန်းပုတို့၊ ဂီတတို့၊ သီချင်းတို့၊ ကဗျာ ဓာတ်ပုံ စသည်တို့ကို အရသာခံတတ်ရင် Connoisseur ခေါ်တဲ့ အရသာခံတတ်တဲ့ ပညာရှင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်ပါပြီ။ ဒါပေမယ့် သုခုမပညာရှင်က အရသာခံတတ်ရုံတင် မရပ်ပါဘူး၊ မိမိတို့ခံစားရတဲ့ အရသာကိုပဲ ပန်းချီ၊ ပန်းပု၊ ဂီတ၊ လင်္ကာ၊ ဓာတ်ပုံ သီချင်း စသည့် မိမိတို့ အစွမ်းပညာနှင့် သူတပါးတို့ကို အရသာခံနိုင်အောင် တစ်ဆင့် ဖောက်သည် ချတတ်ရပါသေးတယ် (အနုပညာရသ - ဓားတန်းဦးသန့်)”
― ဆူးငှက်, ပုံတူမန္တလေး

“If you really want to change someone’s mind on a moral or political matter, you’ll need to see things from that person’s angle as well as your own. And if you do truly see it the other person’s way—deeply and intuitively—you might even find your own mind opening in response. Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it’s very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion