We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: inspirational reminding
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I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end.
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results: They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as paper facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their madeup tales.
And so on.
Once I understood what was making America such a dangerous, unhappy nation of people who had nothing to do with real life, I resolved to shun storytelling. I would write about life. Every person would be exactly as important as any other. All facts would also be given equal weightiness. Nothing would be left out. Let others bring order to chaos. I would bring chaos to order, instead, which I think I have done.
If all writers would do that, then perhaps citizens not in the literary trades will understand that there is no order in the world around us, that we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.
It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.
Stichwörter: inspirational real-life
Just as the mightiest oak topples without its roots, so will a man without knowledge of his people come crashing to earth, dreamless and unfulfilled. We can not hope to understand ourselves until we know someting of those who have come before us.
William A. MannStichwörter: inspirational
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter BagehotStichwörter: inspirational
Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
James DeanStichwörter: inspirational carpe-diem aspirations advice-for-daily-living
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
Neil PeartStichwörter: inspirational
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.Stichwörter: inspirational
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
Stichwörter: inspirational constructive-living
Jetzt kommt die Pointe aller Pointen, die mir der Herr im Schlaf verliehen hat.
Franz RosenzweigStichwörter: inspirational
Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.
Sharon StoneStichwörter: inspirational
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