Life is pain, princess. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains." (Anne Frank)
When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains." (Anne Frank)
When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.
That last one is a paraphrase of a quote from Albert Einstein: "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know his thoughts. The rest are details."
ReplyDeleteInteresting, I didn't know that. Thanks!
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