“Don’t forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.”
Category: musings . . .
allegory . . .
“He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.”
~Roman Payne
saddled . . .
“barrier or threshold . . .?
“The restless adventurer within me stands eye-to-eye with the fear that has stepped directly in my path. And the thing I absolutely must not do is to blink first.”
moths . . .
“The Moth don’t care when he sees The Flame.
He might get burned, but he’s in the game.
And once he’s in, he can’t go back, he’ll
Beat his wings ’til he burns them black…
No, The Moth don’t care when he sees The Flame. . .
The Moth don’t care if The Flame is real,
‘Cause Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal.
And nothing fuels a good flirtation,
Like Need and Anger and Desperation…
No, The Moth don’t care if The Flame is real. . . ”
to minimize friction . . .
The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.”
“go confidently . . .”
everyone has a candle . . .
“cruthaitheach . . .”
“Everyone starts with talent; everyone has a candle and it shines. Most people let it go out or other people blow it out for them.”
~Cees Nooteboom
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coda . . .
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
“the way it is with children . . .”
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.”