“Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also!
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.”
Source: King Solomon's Mines
“... Gen Z has a global perspective. Gen Z will graduate into a recession on account of the 2009 financial crisis and the global pandemic of 2020. These economic stressors will undermine this generation's ability to be independent and self-reliant. Gen Z were born into an era of increased gun violence, terrorism and war.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“To truly appreciate the essence of a culture you would need to grasp the language that offers a window into its traditions and beliefs.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Pausing for a moment of mindfulness attention to observe the person in front of you will help you to slow down and connect more purposefully.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Personal responsibilities cannot compensate for societal irresponsibility”
Source: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
“I live as lamp to the world not another lamb.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“If you are so far above the society you live in, you feel like you are in a very deserted street, in a wonderfully quiet place, a real paradise, far from all that primitive shouting, from the pitiful nonsense of all kinds of irrationality, from that real hell called stupidity and ignorance!”
“A society whose ideas are different but whose faces are similar is always superior to a society whose ideas are the same but whose faces are different!”
“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies... [Books] show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.”
Source: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
“The city is the cradle of culture, the birthplace of nearly all our most cherished ideas.”
Source: Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud