“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
– George Orwell
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Meaning – Joseph Campbell
“What is the ‘meaning’ of a tree? of a butterfly? of the birth of a child? or of the universe? What is the ‘meaning’ of the song of the rushing stream? Such wonders simply are. They are antecedent to meaning, though ‘meanings’ may be read into them…So, likewise, are the images of myth, which open like flowers to the conscious mind’s amazement and may then be searched to the root for ‘meaning,’ as well as arranged to serve practical ends.”
– Joseph Campbell, The Flight of the Wild Gander
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Broken – Unknown
“We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Unknown
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Fool – Roald Dahl
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”
– Roald Dahl
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The way you behave – Jake Gyllenhaal
“The way you behave with everybody is more important than the work you do. Generosity, kindness, and patience will get you so far: that’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned.”
– Jake Gyllenhaal
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There is room – H. G. Wells
“My warmest wishes to you Joyce. I can’t follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong.”
– H. G. Wells
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Entertain the thought- Bo Burnham
“No one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you.”
– Bo Burnham
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Life – Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
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Education – Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller
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Yesterday – Khalil Gibran
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. Today, we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”
– Khalil Gibran
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Happy ending Gilda Radner
“I always wanted a happy ending… Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”
– Gilda Radner
“The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I’m sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live in trapped loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out ahead of us. We see the same things each day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation of the last, every moment smoothly following the the gentle curves of societal norms. we act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us. And no, I don’t have all the answers. I don’t know how to jolly myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn’t involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn’t involve tempering my life to better fit someone’s expectations. It doesn’t involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up. This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can: Fuck. That. Shit.”
– Randall Munroe (xkcd)
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Forgiveness – C.S. Lewis
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
– C.S. Lewis
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Noisy crowd – Rabindranath Tagore
“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Debates – John Stuart Mill
“In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.”
– John Stuart Mill