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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. ↗


— Pema Chödrön


#shambhala #teacher

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. ↗


— Friedrich Nietzsche


#student #teacher #teacher

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. ↗


— Jonathan Franzen


#mirrors #narcissism #technology #love

[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis. ↗


— Grant H. Kester


#art-history #assumptions #avant-garde #fallacy #meaning

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ↗


— Gustave Flaubert


#travel #travel

تبسمك في وجه أخيك صدقة، وأمرك بالمعروف صدقة ونهيك عن المنكر صدقة، وإرشادك الرجل في أرض الضلال لك صدقة، ونصرك الرجل الرديء البصر لك صدقة، وإماطتك الحجر والشوك العظم عن الطريق لك صدقة Smiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity. So is enjoining good and forbidding evil, giving directions to the lost traveller, aiding the blind and removing obstacles from the path. (Graded authentic by Ibn Hajar and al-Albani: Hidaayat-ur-Ruwaah, 2/293) ↗


— Muhammad


#compassion #giving-directions #islam #mohammed #muhammad

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. ↗


— Oscar Wilde


#epigram #tabloid-journalism #wisdom #wisdom

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. ↗


— Bette Davis


#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. ↗


— Rebecca West


#empowerment #feminism #opinions #women #womens-liberation

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ↗


— James Branch Cabell


#pessimism #true






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