We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of a child at play.
– Widely attributed to Heraclitus but not sourced on WikiQuote.
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Oct 102013
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way. This is not easy.
Aristotle, marble portrait bust, Roman copy (2nd century bc) of a Greek original (c. 325 bc); in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Oct 092013
I would rather cuddle, then have sex.
If you’re good with grammar, you’ll get it.
Oct 082013
Slave Song
“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.” -Frederick Douglas
Oppressed people are not only taken advantage of, they are expected to soothe the conscience of the oppressor as well. So women are expected to be submissive and sweet even as they are passed over for promotions. Gays and lesbians are expected to live invisibly or play out stereotyped roles without asking for marriage rights. Many who will tolerate a president with black skin would never tolerate a black leader who looked at the camera without deference to white privilege and told America the truth about it’s racism.
– Jim Rugby
Oct 072013
In India, we have a saying—everything will be all right in the end,” he explains. “So if it is not all right, it is not yet the end.”
– spoken by Sonny Kapoor, played by Dev Patel, in the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The film is based on the 2004 novel These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach.
Oct 062013
people cry , not because they’re weak. it’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
– Author Unknown
Image source – http://plastickheart.deviantart.com
Oct 052013
Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story.