“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“Said to Mitch Album in "Tuesday's with Morrie": "The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things and you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it! CREATE YOUR OWN!”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”
― quote from Morrie: In His Own Words
“إن الحياة السياسية بكاملها في معناها الأوسع عقيمة في المجتمعات التي تحكمها نظم ما بعد الشمولية, حيث لا توجد فرصة لأي فرد أن يتحدث في السياسة, فما بالك أن ينخرط فيها, تقوم الطقوس الأيديولوجية بملء الفجوة التي تنجم عن هذا الوضع. في مثل هذه الأوضاع يقل انشغال الناس بالسياسة, ويصير الفكر السياسي المستقل والعمل السياسي -إذا سلمنا بوجود شيء كهذا في أي صورة- أمرا غير واقعي وغير منطقي, يصبح بمثابة مجرد بعبة بعيدة كل البعد عن هموم الحياة اليومية القاسية.
وبالتالي تصبح لعبة طريفة, لكن دون جدوى. فهي من ناحية أمر خيالي, ومن ناحية أخرى شديد الخطورة, نظراً للعنف الشديد الذي تلقاه أيه محاولة في الاتجاه من قبل سلطة المجتمع.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“A 2008 survey of 3,400 officers reported that 88 percent believed Iraq had “stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin” while nearly half thought Iraq had “broken” the military.33”
― Christopher L. Hayes, quote from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
“you never really could know how much trouble until it was too late and you loved them enough not to care about the consequences.”
― Kaitlyn Davis, quote from Ignite
“He was really quite addicted to her face, and yet for the longest time he could not remember it at all, it being so much brighter than sunlight on a pool of water that he could only recall that blinding brightness; then after awhile, since she refused to give him her photograph, he began to practice looking away for a moment when he was still with her, striving to uphold in his inner vision what he had just seen (her pale, serious, smooth and slender face, oh, her dark hair, her dark hair), so that after immense effort he began to retain something of her likeness although the likeness was necessarily softened by his fallibility into a grainy, washed-out photograph of some bygone court beauty, the hair a solid mass of black except for parallel streaks of sunlight as distinct as the tines of a comb, the hand-tinted costume sweetly faded, the eyes looking sadly, gently through him, the entire image cob-webbed by a sheet of semitranslucent Thai paper whose white fibers twisted in the lacquered space between her and him like gorgeous worms; in other words, she remained eternally elsewhere.”
― William T. Vollmann, quote from Europe Central
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