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Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#flux #life #meditation #nihilism #philosophy

I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#enormous #feel #i #i feel #must

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#everyone #formality #get #grilling #involved

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#doing #dropped #had #high #high school

I spend 80% of my time in my restaurants. Taping my TV shows doesn't take much time, and then they get aired a lot. That's the thing people don't realize. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#get #i #lot #much #my time

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#became #been #before #cook #cooking

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#i #know #may #nations #people

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest as well as the most wicked of men. As I read and contemplated the subject, behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment and sting my soul to unutterable anguish. As I writhed under it, I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy. it opened my eyes to the horrible pit, but to no ladder upon which to get out. in moments of agony, I envied my fellow-slaves for their stupidity. I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate. The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was ever present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#frederick-douglass #reading #slavery #education

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fat #fat man #imprisoned #man #out

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#dread #fear #get #get married #greater