“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.” – Robert Penn Warren, All the Kings Men
Give of yourself, except for that which weakens you. Accept what is given, but not that which compromises. “
Lujan Matus The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception
“Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.” – Chuck Palahnuik, Haunted
“The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.” – Jose Saramago, The Cave
“Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.” – Jose Saramago, The Cave
“Even the strongest spirits have the moments of irresistible weakness,” – Jose Saramago, The Cave
“To talk about oneself a great deal can also be a means of concealing oneself.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.”
Aristotle