Dan Patrick Lopez

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.”
― Nick Joaquín, Culture and History