“My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.” LooksSelfHandsEyeLeftHeavenStepsHeroRaisesAppearanceArguingDramaticLook UpProtestPensGossipProfessorsAncestorBrutalMuseHer EyesUnclesAuntAlcoholicsMaidsSteps ForwardAmazementPropheticEnsembleGigglePapaLeft HandPedantic Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.” IfsFacesLeftWaitingLosesGraceSeeingDoorsTomorrowRaisesBelovedChampionHopelessYour FaceAbandonedNever Lose Hope Author:Rumi
“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.” PeopleIfsMadeStillsDifferentSufferingLeftExampleBearsRaisesJewHolocaustDoomed Book:The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition
“Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.” KnowsMenSoulDiesLeftVisionTruth IsEternalEarsTragedyRaisesStormMortalitySpectatorsFurySailor Author:George Santayana
“We're not trying to raise good kids. We're trying to raise kids who become great adults. That's a very different thing. We all know parents who had kids that when they turned 18 left the house and went nuts.” KnowsTryingDifferentKidsHouseLeftParentAdultsRaisesDifferent ThingsNuts Author:Andy Andrews