An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
-Kahlil Gibran
Jeg ser i dig –
Treat a man as he is,
and he will remain as he is.
Treat a man as he could be,
and he will become what he should be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soft touch
Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.
– Virginia Woolf, The letters of Virginia Woolf, vol. 3
Vreden i skønheden
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
– Charles Bukowski
Mildhed
Have a heart that never hardens,
a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.
– Charles Dickens
Bare én
Taking Time
I need a day of nothing, a reprieve from the frenetic whirlwind of my life.
Shrug it off like an old winter coat, and hang it by the door.
I need a day where I am not asked, wanted, or noticed. To know there is a wall of silence between me and everything else.
-Lang Leav
På vej
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere on water and land.
– Walt Whitman
There is a time
Think in the morning.
Act in the noon.
Eat in the evening.
Sleep in the night.
– William Blake
Conceded
I am not young enough to know everything.
– Oscar Wilde
Once done
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
-Winston Churchill