We expect more from technology and less from each other. What once would have seemed like ‘good service’ is now an inconvenience.
– Sherry Turkle

Oysters make pearls so they can feel better.
When a grain of sand/debris gets stuck in they bodies, they ease the pain and irritation by coating it with multiples layers of nacre, the mineral that lines the
inside of the shell and the pearl begins to form.

On the downside, there isn't a point. on the upside, there isn't a point

But I think it is also hard for us to confront human-caused climate change because the most privileged among us, the people who consume the most energy, can separate ourselves from the weather. I am certainly one such person. I am insulated from the weather by my house and its conditioned air. I eat strawberries in January. When it is raining, I can go inside. When it is dark, I can turn on lights. It is easy for me to feel like climate is mostly an outside phenomenon, whereas I am mostly an inside phenomenon.

INSULTS:

i wish people had been kinder to you so that you could be kinder to people

I can only explain it to you, I can't understand it for you.

You have the confidence of a much taller man.

You light up every room you leave.

"You aren't the dumbest person alive, but you'd better hope they don't die"

"I hope you're just having a bad day, and this isn't your real personality"

"I envy the people who have never met you"

"The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others"
—Alain de Botton