It's amazing how something she wrote about a totally different
situation applies so well to what some people like myself are going through today.
I've put an excerpt below with the author's permission.
Well said, all you dead people & the author of this post. :)
I've put an excerpt below with the author's permission.
quotes fascinate me - it is so interesting to see what perspectives great men have and what they have to say about humans in general. sadly though, much of it arent exactly glowing remarks :
Men willingly believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides
well then, if all men are fools, then doesnt that mean that there isnt any point conducting any conversations in life? ain't it a pity? and since the dawn of time there has always been ample room for self doubt and mutual suspicion thanks to man's innate dark and cunning side :
oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
- sir walter scott, marmion. canto vi. stanza 17.
i cannot tell how the truth may be, i say the tale as it was said to me.
- sir walter scott
a lie told often enough becomes the truth.
- lenin
ah, BUT! god made men kinda special - he gave us the power to lie and sham, but he also gave us the power to analyse, to search for truth, and ultimately, forgive :
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- Sir Francis Bacon
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course : a quiet conscience.
- Euripides
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Abraham Lincoln
then we become ironic and cynical (but very very wise words indeed):
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you - that is what has distressed me.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, maxim #183
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
but ultimately...
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
and we are.
so i guess all this makes living life the exciting rollercoaster trip it is - discovery, denial, acceptance, faith, and love.
life is full of little ironies that sometime laugh right in your face... and laughing right back is such a joyful thing to do!
so i guess we still have far to go in order to even vaguely unravel the complexities of Man :
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of Mankind is Man
- Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man"
Last, and very very intriguing thought :
We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
Well said, all you dead people & the author of this post. :)