Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”
Variant: funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
Source: Lock and Key
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“Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within?”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
1920s, Truth is a Pathless Land (1929)
Context: You are accustomed to being told how far you have advanced, what is your spiritual status. How childish! Who but yourself can tell you if you are beautiful or ugly within? Who but yourself can tell you if you are incorruptible? You are not serious in these things.
But those who really desire to understand, who are looking to find that which is eternal, without beginning and without an end, will walk together with a greater intensity, will be a danger to everything that is unessential, to unrealities, to shadows. And they will concentrate, they will become the flame, because they understand. Such a body we must create, and that is my purpose. Because of that real understanding there will be true friendship. Because of that true friendship – which you do not seem to know – there will be real cooperation on the part of each one. And this not because of authority, not because of salvation, not because of immolation for a cause, but because you really understand, and hence are capable of living in the eternal. This is a greater thing than all pleasure, than all sacrifice.
So these are some of the reasons why, after careful consideration for two years, I have made this decision. It is not from a momentary impulse. I have not been persuaded to it by anyone. I am not persuaded in such things. For two years I have been thinking about this, slowly, carefully, patiently, and I have now decided to disband the Order, as I happen to be its Head. You can form other organizations and expect someone else. With that I am not concerned, nor with creating new cages, new decorations for those cages. My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.
“You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.”
Source: Oscar and Lucinda
“Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.”
Laura Ruby
American writer
Source: Bone Gap
“People have forgotten how to tell a story.”
Steven Spielberg
(1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur
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