#ring

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#centuries #certainly #close #couple #evolved

For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#fall #films #going #know #like

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. ↗

— Albert Camus

#going-on #suicide #survival #courage

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death #time #death

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#education #judgement #mentoring #reasoning #education

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #experience

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#deeply #even #friendship #into #life

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#hope #love #pain #suffering #waiting

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #life #suffering #life

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#laughter #mainspring