What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life?
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That'll do Donkey.. That'll do.
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"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." - Winnie-the-Pooh
I didn't read Winnie-the-Pooh till I was an adult and when I read this it felt like reading a universal truth everyone should know. It nearly brought me to tears.
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Thanks Lance Murdock!
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This is unfortunate, but at the rate we are currently going this might come into fruition.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
-- Franz Kafka -
I believe the first part is already occuring, it's the last half that I hope is wrong.
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a collective struggle or defense against a common oppression.
What do you think WW1 was about?
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Pretty much as written.
As one long breath with no breaks?
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âThe magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoidingâ Dipen Parmar
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And yet, a WWI soldier uttered that phrase. I suppose he did not share this view of WW1. Or he couldn't have wrote that.
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The less you know about your history, the easier it is to imagine you'd always be on the right side of it.
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That's so lovely!
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âIt only ever ends once, everything before that is just progressâ -Jacob from lost lol
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Oh, yeah.
There's another one like this for me, a very short poem I read when I was a teenager :"Ah, what are they dreaming...?
Those who say, say, say...
Yesterday I was there, today I was here" -
I feel I lack some context here. What makes you think he thought it should be avoided? It sounds like he said it was hard and soul-crushing, but there's nothing in the quote to indicate whether he thought it was worth the effort or not.
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Have you seen Babe? That's where that quote is from originally
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"Hurt people hurt people"
Ever since I heard this, I became relatively more compassionate towards people, even if they piss me off.
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"(S)cience tends to progress through younger people, and old ideas tend to die with the originators of those ideas. through this cynical view, science progresses one coffin at a time."
the Sting of the wild p142, J.O. Schmidt
