#ear

I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands. ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#broken-hearted-quotes #one-sidedness #risking-it-all #dreams

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#winning

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#winning

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#knowledge

Some are born great, others achieve greatness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare #achievement

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#deeds #graves #left #over #shed

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. ↗

— Plato

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! ↗

— Jill Telford

#education #learning #education

Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#monsters #nietzsche #battle