Стариков, которые по каждому случаю тянут: «Вот в наше время…» – порицают, и справедливо. Но еще хуже, когда молодежь бубнит то же самое о современности.Joined July 2011
619 Followers 777 FollowingHappiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
557 Followers 704 FollowingFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
635 Followers 739 FollowingOur common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
591 Followers 569 FollowingMany books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
605 Followers 757 FollowingYou're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why Because it feels sooo good.
600 Followers 825 FollowingОткровенно говоря, я не вижу особого смысла превозносить смиренных и кротких. Когда их превозносят, они перестают быть смиренными и кроткими.
549 Followers 687 FollowingMen often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
638 Followers 872 FollowingПоскольку желания людей чаще всего ненасытны, они хотят иметь в изобилии не только вещи полезные и необходимые, но и приятные бесполезные вещи.
570 Followers 556 FollowingCourage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
628 Followers 808 FollowingБрак не может быть счастливым, если супруги до вступления в союз не узнали в совершенстве нравы, привычки и характеры друг друга.
599 Followers 709 FollowingThere are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
619 Followers 784 FollowingWhat I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
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