#tan

Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#understanding #value #imagination

دائمًا ماتهب في عالمنا - الذي قلما نفهمه - رياح الأقدار حاملة أحداثًا لا نتوقعها . فأحيانًا ماتعصف بكيان المرء ، وأحيانًا لا نشعر بها على الأطلاق . ولكننا لا نستطيع إنكارها . فهي تحمل دائمًا معها مستقبلنا الذي لا نستطيع تجاهله ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #novel #life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#focus #focusing-illusion #heuristics #importance #priorities

Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway. ↗

— M.A. McRae

#adjustment #life

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #depends #everything #laws #life

It is increasingly important to be open-minded. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#increasingly #open-minded

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#life

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#another #character #element #feel #i

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#growing #healthy #understanding #life