“You can burn the bridge with the intent of hurting the merchant but remember in the end only the village suffers.”
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Marcus Orelias 28
American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur 1993Related quotes
“Twenty men crossing a bridge,
Into a village,
Are
Twenty men crossing a bridge
Into a village.”
"Metaphors of a Magnifico"
Harmonium (1923)
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 4
Context: Never let anger, or outrage, or fear affect you. That is easy advice to give, but hard to follow. Men will bait you, they will laugh at you, they will jeer. But it is just noise, Kiall. They will hurt the people you love. They will do anything to make you angry or emotional. But the only way you can make them suffer is to win. And to do that you must remain cool.
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Context: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.
“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”
Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)
“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”
