Realities to think about 16

in #ocd4 years ago

To understand a heartbeat is to understand everything.

To understand is not to accept.

The more isolated we are, the more world we see.

We condemn by appearance, we absolve by evidence.

When we laugh ourselves to tears, we are anticipating the future.

When a man grows older, the longer the road to school seems to him.

When someone says: that's a good question, we can be sure that his answers will not be so good.

Counting successes seem like boasting, but counting failures bore the teller as much as the hearer.

The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that the ability to apologize is probably one of the most civilized attributes of the human being.

When someone talks about duty, they usually mean the duty of others.

We almost always remember well what we forgive.

So many things we throw on the ground that when others pick them up they become jewels.

One hundred paths present one hundred difficulties.

Each of us has within us a continent of unknown characters. Blessed is he who acts as the Cristóbal Colon of his own soul.

There is no use in complaining about the course of events.

God save me from the gentle water, for I will keep myself from the rough water.

Of musician, poet, and madman, we all have a little.

From the old man the advice and from the rich man the remedy.