hana77
@hana77, member from Feb. 18, 2020
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
Source: Stepní vlk (Steppenwolf)
“We do not choose the hour of our trials, only how we will meet them.”
Source: https://twitter.com/TheStoicEmperor/status/1321543306166169600
“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Man (Zápisky starého prasáka)
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
Source: The Essence of Christianity (1841)
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Variant: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Source: Les Misérables
“I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.”
Quoted in A. R. Orage, "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau," http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XAR4yD3zcOIJ:www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com/Current/KM_07_2006_02_ORAGE_Talks_with_KM.doc The Century Magazine (November 1924)
Context: Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
Source: Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
Journal entry (19 December 1920), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) edited by J. Middleton Murry
“Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”
The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles (2012)
Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance
Source: A Return to Love
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
Source: Coffee and Cigarettes
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Source: Meditations (Promluvy k sobě)
“Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.”
“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”