#lesson

It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path. ↗

— Django Wylie

#life #life-lessons #puns #wordplay #life

If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd feel a horrible emptiness inside. The only thing that could rouse him from his paralysis would be to gamble with his own face and the face of others. The person capable of that would be permitted anything. ↗

— Vladimir Bartol

#lessons #life #paralysis #solutionism #life

Amigos son los que en la prosperidad acuden al ser llamados y en las adversidades sin serlo. ↗

— Demetrio I. Rey de Macedonia.

#life-lessons #friendship

Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities... ↗

— Koji Suzuki

#life #life-lesson #persistence #possibilities #life

people ask to much because they live in their own reality. not what reality really is. ↗

— Rob Lyon

#life-lessons #reality #wisdom #life

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante. ↗

— Jacques Tardi

#french #interesting #life #life-lesson #life-lessons

When I was a kid I loved wall paper it added a lot of fiber to my paint chips. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#love

If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man ↗

— Ali Bin Abi Thalib

#life #life-lessons #marriage #life

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you. ↗

— Colum McCann

#armies #children #lessons #let-the-great-world-spin #loss

If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#money #money