#ai

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out. ↗

— Bohumil Hrabal

#books #brains #sleep #underwear #authority

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gandalf #hope #doubt

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#doubt

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know. ↗

— Marsilio Ficino

#doubt #hope #uncertainty #doubt

The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! ↗

— James Finn Garner

#emeror-s-new-clothes #emperor #fairytales #humour #politically-correct

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #being #byproduct #come #fairly

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. ↗

— Holly Black

#despair #sad #conflict

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#love #relationships #self-help #vp-shunt #love

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#gratitude #perspective #positive-thinking #rose

These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#ignorance #pain #yoga-sutra #yoga