#the

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#cannot #content #fitting #fitting in #ideas

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. ↗

— Richard Bach

#butterfly #calls #caterpillar #end #end of the world

Non capì, comprese. Perché comprendere era di più, era un abbraccio, era prendere con sé, era farne parte. ↗

— Cetta De Luca

#father #love #womens-fiction #family

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#among #aspiration #complex #diversified #great

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ↗

— Jane Austen

#more #people #them #themselves #who

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#asks #explain #him #i #i do

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. ↗

— David Attenborough

#between #course #misleading #people #same

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#among #contemporary #country #expression #his

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them. ↗

— Jamie Kennedy

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