#line

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand) ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams #words #dreams

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#hagbard-celine #death

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. Oh Janos, Janos my brother! Surely we are not lost--while we live. ↗

— John Hepworth

#death #fiction #hope #last-lines #the-long-green-shore

They were conscientious, you couldn't deny it, and they were also flabby, heartless sons-of-bitches. In other words, they were well chosen, as mindlessly enthusiastic as any employer could dream of. Sons that would have delighted my mother, worshiping their bosses, if only she could have had one all to herself, a son she could have been proud of in the eyes of the world, a real legitimate son. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#louis-ferdinand-céline #dreams

He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he sits himself the chair collapses; whatever door he enters the room is empty: whatever he puts in his mouth leaves a bad taste. Everything is just the same as it was before; the elements are unchanged, the dream is no different than the reality. Only, between the time he went to sleep and the time he woke up, his body was stolen. ↗

— Henry Miller

#loneliness #nothingness #soldier #soul #dreams

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, whether you like it or not. ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#education #education

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#learning #loneliness #school #education

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#young-adult #education

Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#curiosity #discipline #education #education

History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisionsabout the future. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#knowledge #teacher-s-speech #teachers-know-best #terwilliger #education