Daily Wisdom

[deepstrasz]

“...the only religious way in which to regard death is to perceive and reel it as a constituent part of life, as life's holy prerequisite, and not to separate it intellectually, to set it up in opposition to life, or, worse, to play it off against life in some disgusting fashion--for that is indeed the antithesis of a healthy, noble, reasonable, and religious view. The ancients decorated their sarcophagi with symbols of life and procreation, some of them even obscene. For the ancients, in fact, the sacred and the obscene were very often one and the same. Those people knew how to honor death. Death is to be honored as the cradle of life, the womb of renewal. Once separated from life, it becomes grotesque, a wraith -- or even worse. For as an independent spiritual power, death is a very depraved force, whose wicked attractions are very strong and without doubt can cause the most abominable confusion of the human mind.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[MattNJ]

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." -- Michelangelo

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." -- Thomas A. Edison

 

[deepstrasz]

“There had always been people who had willingly entered into illness and madness in order to win knowledge for mankind--and knowledge, having been wrested from madness, became health and, once obtained by heroic sacrifice. Its possession and use were no longer conditioned by illness and madness. That was the true death on the cross.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[Championfighter25]

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves" - Sir Edmund Hillary

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence" - Helen Keller

"If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think" - T. Harv Eker

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover" - Mark Twain

 

[deepstrasz]

“Recreation", which is to say: a refreshing exercise of the organism, because it was in immediate danger of overindulging itself in the uninterrupted monotony of daily life and growing indifferent.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[deepstrasz]

“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We don't recognize this lazy nobility we now have, we reject our present class hierarchy. We want all men to be free and equal, for no one to be someone else's subject, but for all to be subject to the law. There should be an end of privileges and arbitrary power. Everyone should be treated equally as a child of the state, and just as there are no longer any middlemen between the layman and his God, so each citizen should stand in direct relation to the state. We want freedom of the press, of employment, of commerce. We want all men to compete without any special privileges, and the only crown should be the crown of merit.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[Championfighter25]

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity” - Albert Einstein

“If you want to leave footprints in the sands of time, don’t drag your feet” - Annot Sheppard

“When one is at home, he dreams of adventure. When one is on an adventure, he dreams of home” - Author Unknown

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito” - Betty Reese

 

[pyf]

Little Big Man (film) - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-conscious, and forced—until every word, every gesture, the slightest deed in the presence of others had become a taxing and grueling part in a play.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[pyf]

Little Big Man (film) - Wikipedia

 

[Championfighter25]

''If you can't be kind, be quiet'' - Author Unknown

''Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you'' - Joey Adams

''The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not'' - Mark Twain

''Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth'' - Author Unknown

 

[deepstrasz]

“War! It is purification, liberation, an enormous hope. . . . The victory of Germany will be a paradox, nay, a wonder: a victory of the soul over numbers. . . . The German soul is opposed to the pacifist ideal of civilization, for is not peace the element, of civil corruption?”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[deepstrasz]

“Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music would disappear before civilization, before democracy, like mist before the sun.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[Championfighter25]

"You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted" - Ruth E. Renki

"Just remember, the people that say "your dreams are impossible" have already quit on theirs" - Grant Cardone

"Be thankful for what for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow" - Author Unknown

"Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being you and yourself" - Author Unknown

 

[deepstrasz]

"No doubt at all but just as the animal kingdom was composed of various species of animals, as the human-animal organism was composed of a whole animal kingdom of cell species, so the cell organism was composed of a new and varied animal kingdom of elementary units, far below microscopic size, which grew spontaneously, increased spontaneously according to the law that each could bring forth only after its kind, and, acting on the principle of a division of labour, served together the next higher order of existence.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[chobibo]

If you stand by the pond and want the fish in it, you are better off going home to make a fish net than to continue standing by the pond. ~ Dong Zhongshu Zhuan

 

[deepstrasz]

“For happiness, he told himself, isn’t being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one’s love.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[chobibo]

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ~Agatha Christie

EDIT:

“Children often believe adults are better or worse than they actually are, I want to depict real adults, not just characters that exist solely to threaten children.” ~ Isao Takahata

 

[deepstrasz]

“He remained seated on his revolving stool, turned toward us, hands between his knees, in a position the same as ours, and with a few words concluded his lecture on the question of why Beethoven had not written a third movement to Opus 111. We had needed only to hear the piece, he said, to be able to answer the question ourselves. A third movement? A new beginning, after that farewell? A return — after that parting? Impossible! What had happened was that the sonata had found its ending in its second, enormous movement, had ended never to return. And when he said, “the sonata,” he did not mean just this one, in C minor, but he meant the sonata per se, as a genre, as a traditional artform — it had been brought to an end, to its end, had fulfilled its destiny, reached a goal beyond which it could not go; canceling and resolving itself, it had taken its farewell - the wave of goodbye from the D-G-G motif, consoled melodically by the C-sharp, was a farewell in that sense, too, a farewell as grand as the work, a farewell from the sonata.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[Championfighter25]

"Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future" - Jodi Picoult

''Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day'' - Paulo Coelho

"Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair" - Alexandre Dumas

"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[deepstrasz]

“It’s a craving that shouldn’t even exist, and yet you can’t wish it didn’t exist. Once it has hold of you, you can’t wish it away, because you’d have to wish your life away, it’s so bound up with it, and you can’t do that—what good would dying do? Afterward—with pleasure. In her arms—only too gladly. But before? That’s nonsense, because life is desire, and desire is life, and life can’t be its own enemy.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[Championfighter25]

''Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit'' - Darren Hardy

''Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies'' - Ann Launders

''Life has setbacks. They are a part of life, but you can come back from a setback. You cannot only come back, but you can come back better than you were before. Setbacks are a major part of success'' - Miranda Burnette

''Once you master the personal disciplines necessary to effectively manage your time, you will be able to be, do, and have anything you want or need to achieve whatever level of prosperity and success you want in life'' - James Piper

 

[deepstrasz]

“No, when it came to the ultimate and highest questions, there was no help from outside - no mediation, no absolution, no soothing consolation. Every man had to untangle the riddle on his own, had to work diligently at it, at hot speed, all by himself; before it was too late, he must either achieve some clear readiness for death, or die in despair.”
~Thomas Mann.

 

[pyf]

knowing what we
now know, shouldn't we
insist that those who
cannot afford the
kind of life we
enjoy, have a wage
rise long before our
selves.

Spoiler

Acrostic - Wikipedia
The Benny Hill Show - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Championfighter25]

''Asking yourself this one question: If i were shopping right this second , would i buy this? If the answer's no, out it goes'' - Author Unknown

''Because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have'' - Author Unknown

''A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than a hour of praise after success'' - Author Unknown

''Don't judge or look at my past too hard... i don't live there anymore'' - Author Unknown

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Championfighter25]

"Timing is everything. If it's meant to happen, it will, at the right time for the right reasons" - Author Unknown

"F-E-A-R has 2 meanings:
Forget everything and run or Face everything and rise. The choice is yours" - Zig Ziglar

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it" - Confucius

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship" - Mao Zedong

 

[deepstrasz]

"The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship" - Mao Zedong

Tell that to Sun Yat-sen.

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[Championfighter25]

"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down" - Socrates

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking" - Marcus Aurelius

"In law man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so" - Emmanuel Kant

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time" - Rabindranath Tagore

 

[deepstrasz]

“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[Championfighter25]

"The past has no power over the present moment" - Eckhart Tolle

"All knowedge hurts" - Cassandra Clare

"Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses" - Brian Tracy

"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny" - Stephen Hawking

 

[deepstrasz]

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

 

[Championfighter25]

''If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all'' - Noam Chomsky

''If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things'' - Rene Descartes

''Sometimes there is no happy choice... only one less grievous than the others'' - Jon Snow

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[pyf]

To Get Inside the Silence, Lesser Gods Must Give Up Their Control of the Deaf
Children of a Lesser God (play) - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.”
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

 

[Championfighter25]

''You're on your own in this life. Family and very few friends really care about you'' - Author Unknown

''Don’t burn a bridge until you’re sure you’re never crossing it again'' - Author Unknown

''Nobody cares what you were thinking; they care what you did'' - Author Unknown

''A king is worshiped in his country. A wise man, everywhere'' - Author Unknown

 

[deepstrasz]

“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

 

[Zombie]

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[pyf]

Dead Poets Society - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

“A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigtail.”
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

 

[Championfighter25]

''The goal of life is to die young, but as late as possible'' - Author Unknown

''The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now'' - Chinese proverb

''A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark'' - Robert A. Heinlein

''A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials'' - Chinese proverb

 

[deepstrasz]

“What annoys me most is that these stupid Frenchmen think I am still just seven years old - because that was my age when they first saw me - (...) they treat me here like a beginner - except the musicians; they know better.”
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

sorry @pyf

 

[pyf]

Dead Poets Society - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]

 

[pyf]

Dead Poets Society - Wikipedia

 

[deepstrasz]