Quotes
Every problem cries in its own language
Go like a blood hound where the truth has trampled
—Tomas Tranströmer, “About History”
Go like a blood hound where the truth has trampled
—Tomas Tranströmer, “About History”
Johanna Karlsson • How to solve a problem
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
A quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
On friendship
I perceive value, I confer value, I create value. I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make ‘lists.’ The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names. Nothing exists unless I maintain it (by my interest, or my potential interest).
... See moreVictor Hugo once remarked, “Everything had already been said, but nobody listened, so it had to be said again” —and his wise words bear repeating.
Tim Leberecht • Bullshit Jobs Will Save Us All
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
-Tolkien
Virginia Woolf on her ideal diary:
I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do.”
Oscar Wilde once said “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”.