#be

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#became #i #kind #monk #nine

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#bring #good #good teachers #how #know

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dangerous #enters #first #her #into

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #fragment #human #human existence #literary

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exactly #hammer #handled #how #idea

How goodness heightens beauty! ↗

— Milan Kundera

#goodness #heightens #how

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#allowed #am #better #better actor #i

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#change #change the world #designed #great #laughed

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#deaf #going #louder #music #people