Posted by: mor-joy
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
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You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
And men go to contemplate the peaks of mountains, the vast billows of the sea, the vast currents of the rivers, the immensity of the ocean, the course of stars, and don't think about themselves.
The stupid never think that merit and good luck are strongly related to one another.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Admit your mistakes before someone exagerates them.
The greatest sanctuary is knowing oneself.
Teach me kindness inspiring charity, teach me discipline giving me patience and teach me science enlightening my mind.
Never be afraid of confrontation. Even when planets collide, from chaos is born a star.
The earth has enough resourses for everyone's needs, not for everyone's greeds.
The flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
Flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.
There's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
Nobody ever finds
the one.
The city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill
nothing else
fills.