#los

Learn to recognize omens, and follow them ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #philosophical #the-alchemist #inspirational

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#awfully #chance #close #damn #get

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #philosophy #death

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#care #close #come #debatable #debate

Life is like a rape. If we cannot resist it, split the legs and enjoy it. ↗

— Aaron Lee

#philosophy #life

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#belief #cooperation #educational #factor #friendship

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#because #call #dad #eight #feel

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#deschooling-society #education #ivan-illich #pedagogic-philosophy #pedagogy

Some people build houses others build people; of the two I would rather be of the latter ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational #philosophical #philosophical-musings #philosophy #attitude

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#beyond #case #confines #constructed #content