I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
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It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great read more
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding -- that existence is a struggle.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.
He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold...
Pictures help you to form the mental mold...
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
