Posted by: Elisabetta
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Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.
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Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.
Men understand soon the reason for existence. Maybe that is the reason why they desist equally soon. But that is how the world goes.
When God distributed stupidity many queued up three times.
So we split without having understood each other. But it is not easy to understand one another in this world.
Athos was of the opinion that everyone should've had their free choice. He never gave advice without being asked again and one had to also ask him twice. Generally - he said- advice is only asked to not be followed, or, if it has been followed to have someone to reproach for having given bad advice.
Tears blur ones faults and permit blaming, with no objection, fate. I was crying because I had just lost the father for whom I had always lived. Keeping him little company didn't matter. Weren't my efforts to better myself done to give him some satisfaction?
Never come back either to take a run.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness.(from "Zeno's Conscience")
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
There's no loyalty that doesn't cheat at least one time, except dog's one...