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I called them mad, and they called me mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”
- Nathaniel Lee
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
-Ecclesiastes 1:18
An rud is annamh is iontach.
– What is strange is wonderful. (Irish proverb.)
Nasreddin Hoja was standing in a field when a passerby quizzed him, asking what the people in the next village down the road were like.
“Well, what did you think of the people in our village?” he asked the stranger.
“Block-headed, lazy, stupid and rude, if you must know,” replied the traveler.
“That’s probably how you’ll find them in the next village, too,” said the Hoja.
A little later, another passing stranger struck up a conversation with Nasreddin Hoja. He too asked what the people in the next village were like.
“How did you find the people in this village?” countered the Hoja again.
“Warm-hearted, smiling, gentle and hospitable,” answered the stranger.
“Then that’s how you’ll find them in the next village, too.”
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery. A man who’s spoken some really beautiful truths.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
-Ernest Hemingway (via Projectionist)
Asking good questions is half of learning.
- Muhammad
A great king summoned his wise men. He ordered them, “Create for me a saying that will stabilize my inner state. When I am unhappy it will bring me joy, and when I am happy it will remind me of sadness. It cannot be too long, as I want to keep it with me always.”
The wise men consulted and contemplated deeply the king’s command. Finally, they returned to the king bearing a small box. In it there was a ring, and inside the ring was inscribed the following words: “This too shall pass.”
All the atoms of the universe became so many mirrors, each reflecting an aspect of the eternal splendor. A portion fell on the rose, which drove the nightingale mad with love. Its ardor inflamed the candle’s cheek, and hundreds of moths came from every side and burned themselves on it. It set the sun ablaze, and made the water lily loom up from the depths.
-Jami
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Josh Billings (1818-1885)
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
- Marcel Pagnol (French Writer, Producer and Film Director, 1895-1974)
The Sufi is…
Drunk without wine; sated without food; distraught; foodless and sleepless; a king beneath a humble cloak; a treasure within a ruin; not of air and earth; not of fire and water; a sea without bounds. He has a hundred moons and skies and suns. He is wise through universal truth – not a scholar from a book.
–Rumi
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
-Rumi
What one refuses in a minute
No eternity will return.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Perhaps you, my judges, pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it.
-Giordano Bruno, d. 1600, after being sentenced to burn at the stake for claiming there were planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. (Via the How to Live blog.)
She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither…
-Time Magazine on Brigitte Bardot
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected. It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires.
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.
I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy.
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