Quotations for reflections

_ – About the failure of tenderness
_ – About the upside down world
_ – About grief and joy
About the failure of tenderness

Cruelty is the failure of tenderness. I deplore trivialized cruelty on TV, in a consumer society and in aggressive competition.

Fernando Ulloa, Argentine psychoanalist.

About the upside down world

For a while the world was flat. Now it’s upside down. To understand it, invert your thinking. See the developed world as depending on the developing world, rather than the other way round. Understand that two-thirds of global economic growth in 2007 came from emerging countries, whose economies will expand about 6.7 percent in 2008, against 1.3 percent for the United States, Japan and Euro zone states. A shift in economic power is underway, whose implications the developed world has not grasped yet.

Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune

About grief and joy

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to share it with.

Mark Twain