That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
Kurt Vonnegut (Deadeye Dick)
Month / March 2010
We must be careful…
We must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)
Many people need desperately…
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’
Kurt Vonnegut (Timequake)
I urge you to please notice…
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without A Country)
We must embrace pain…
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
We don’t see things…
We don’t see things the way they are; we see them the way we are.
Anais Nin
Sorrow makes us all…
Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The deep pain that…
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
To live would be…
To live would be an awful big adventure.
J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
When you are sorrowful…
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
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