May 2012
29 posts
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
—George Orwell
“When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.”
—Mark Twain
“Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.”
—Dostoevsky
“He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent or to examine himself so as to discover his own sins…”
—St. Maximos the Confessor (Third Century on Love no. 55)
“I know now who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
—Lewis Carroll
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
—― Hunter S. Thompson