“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales… To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing.”
—Bertrand Russell
February 2011
“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: “He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.”
—Epictetus
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On a Canadian speaking tour, Winston Churchill found himself sitting next to a Methodist bishop.
A young waitress offered each of them a glass of sherry.
Churchill accepted his, but the bishop said, “Young lady, I’d rather commit adultery than take an intoxicating beverage.”
Churchill said, “Come back, lassie, I didn’t know we had a choice!”
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“Und all die zerbrochenen Träume
die kann es hier nicht geben
denn das hier ist ein schönes Lied
und es heißt : Gelingendes Leben” —Funny van Dannen - Gelingendes Leben
die kann es hier nicht geben
denn das hier ist ein schönes Lied
und es heißt : Gelingendes Leben” —Funny van Dannen - Gelingendes Leben
“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
—Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World”
“Be happy. And even though happiness forgets about you sometimes, don’t you ever forget about happiness.”
—Roberto Benigni (via swedesinstockholm)
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“Real happiness comes cheap; if it’s expensive, it’s not of a good type.”
—(via fuckyeahzenmind)
“It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes years to know what love is.”
—Jason Mraz “Life is Wonderful”
