Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books
Why
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- ~ Robert A. Heinlein
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April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
~ T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
~ Charles Dickens
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
~ Oscar Wilde
When we discovered Cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering Cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us. ~ Pablo Picasso
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' ~ Mary Anne RadmacherPainting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
~ Damien Hirst
My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Philip: 'Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.'
Hugh: 'So what do we do?'
Philip: 'Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.'
Hugh: 'How?'
Philip: 'I don't know. It's a mystery.'
~ Shakespeare in Love
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, "I don't know," then it becomes possible to get at the truth. ~ Robert Heinlein
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. ~ Emmet Fox
Did I eat the sloth or did the sloth eat me? ~ Mr. Mola
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. ~ Gustave Flaubert
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. ~ Joseph Addison
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~ Horace
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