#ch

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#masochism #life

Why am I always looking at life through a window? ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #life

I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#heart #life #life

What do you think?" he asks. "I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?" "I see them every night," he says. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life

Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#discipline #education #education

We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans. ↗

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#homeschooling #education

You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick. ↗

— Ron Rash

#life #mistakes #life

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#book #every #every time #get #i

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#children #demian #feelings #hermann-hesse #thoughts

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create...It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do! ↗

— C.K. Webb

#ck-webb #editing #insanity #re-writing #life