Education

• Wayne State University

Favorite saying

• "“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” ― Alan Watts "You know, sometimes I think I've felt everything I'm ever gonna feel, and from here on out I'm not gonna feel anything new, just...lesser versions of what I've already felt". -Spike Jonze “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -Albert Camus “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself” -Seneca "If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete." -Viktor E. Frankl "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." -Friedrich Nietzsche "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky "You live only as long as the last person who remembers you." -Westworld "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." -García Márquez "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods." -Horatius Between the menacing ,and often triumphant, wolves and the oblivious flock of sheep, I'd rather be the sheep dog, loyal and true to their friend to whatever end. -Me “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!...Remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there’s sorrow. Pain. Don’t kill it and with it the joy you’ve felt.” -André Aciman “I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned." -Harlan Ellison "Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet." -Barack Obama "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence" -Charles Bukowski "if you take away the labels, you realize we're far alike than we are different." - Ellen Degeneres "Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking" - George Carlin "Love does not despair. Love makes us strong. Love gives us the courage to act. Love gives us hope that change is possible. Loves allows us to change the script,” -Stephen Colbert “Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” -Unknown "We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster." -Carl Sagan "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Robert J. Hanlon "Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days. A purpose." -Dolores "Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars." -Serbian Proverb "The facts have a well-known liberal bias." - Rob Corddry "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams." - Hamlet, II.ii "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -George Orwell “Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..” -Christopher Hitchens "Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty". -Mark Twain "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -Henry David Thoreau"