#philosophy

"The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty."

"Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty."

"Sometimes Magic is What Disappears [10w] + {Couplet} Love's tragic, not ecstatic;with finespun change, disappears the magic."

"He was just a kid. He didn’t care. He was like, “I’m getting in my mom’s van and I’m going home.” I was just a kid, too. But I cared. With him gone, who was I going to play Plato and Socrates with?"

"Education shouldn’t be the prison of known knowledge, but it should be the bridge to find the yet unknown universe of knowledge."

"A tree is more conscious than we are; she expresses her awareness slowly and silently with beauty. Our consciousness is very limited, but we are blessed with a language to express or superficial consciousness."

"I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves."

"I love you not only for today and tomorrow but forever."

"Twittersweeet [10w] Finding Twitter followers' like fishing in a lake of fisherman."

"Good Egg [10w] Picking up the pieces is the responsibilty of the egg."

"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

"Compassion is the basis of all morality"

"To be infinite, lose yourself in infinite love."

"If everyone, every morning, thought about peace just for a few minutes instead of thinking about what to eat for breakfast we would have peace in the world."

"Rules of Etiquette [10w] Rules of etiquette are pretend manners for the lower classes."

"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

"Scientifically Proven [10w] Mariah Carey has a brain the size of a walnut."

"When you can overcome the fear of failure, success will not be far away."

"When Old Age Begins Old age seizes center stagewhen more people we love are amidst the deadthan amongst the living."

"To live in peace, love peace."