“I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .” LittlesHelpingDiesOrdinaryExtraordinaryLove LifePoeticMundaneSeducing Author:Rajneesh
“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.” LittlesPhilosophyMightDiesLiteratureInterestHalfAliveDesignWalkingOrdinarySittingExpectedNervousBoredFeaturesSuicidalConsumedWrecksShatteredNervous SystemKinshipSitting Up Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.” ShouldStatesHandsKidsYoungDiesIndividualClearTeacherDutyExerciseProtectOrdinaryGunShould HavePerformancesDiedSacredAgentsSolemnSuggestingBulbsColumbineYoung Life Author:L. Neil Smith
“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?” ShouldAgeDiesStrangePoetEternalOrdinaryPrivilegeThank GodUglinessMysticEphemeral Author:Florence Earle Coates
“I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.” ChildrenCareFormDiesParentAnswersSonOrdinaryOur ChildrenTake CareYour ChildrenHomelessSchizophrenia Author:James D. Watson