“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
A twofer today:
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf
@edgarblythe,
“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf
" I am a flower, but I'm rooted."
I'm sorry.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
@edgarblythe,
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.
They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
--Buddha
“Someone was saying yesterday, "This world
began in time, but eternity will inherit it.”
― Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
@edgarblythe,
everything is an occurence for something to not occur means that does not exist.
@xrickandmorty,
xrickandmorty wrote:
everything is an occurence for something to not occur means that does not exist.
That's a sloppy sentence.
@tsarstepan,
But amorphous and glabberly.
“Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
@edgarblythe,
“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
“For behold your body —
A painted puppet, a toy,
Jointed, sick and full of false
imaginings,
A shadow that shifts and fades.”
― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada : The Sayings of Buddha
“A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.”
― Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate
There is great beauty in nature but also great horror. If you can accept both, therein lies the sublime.
--W. A. Narod
“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.”
― Audre Lorde
"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..."
-Terry Pratchett
Everything has a value and something that does not have a value is a type of value. You could call a free will which is randomness a value, but everything has a cause. Something is caused has a specific effect, and cannot be caused by randomness because a cause is causing the randomness to cause it and so on in an infinite conceptual loop, leaving no end what can never change.
----myself
