One day fear knocked on the door, courage got up and opened it to see no one standing outside.
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One day fear knocked on the door, courage got up and opened it to see no one standing outside.
Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say 'yes' to life?
We always search what unites us, never that which divides us.
The true oratory consists in saying the necessary and only the necessary.
If you think it would be a criminal thing to destroy Nature, reflect how much more criminal it is to take the life of a man.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing what decision to take is the worst suffering.
Boredom is not but of those whose soul something holds.
It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
This compassionate Idiot denies the whole of Life, all thinking and feeling, all that the world and reality mean to others. For him Reality is something entirely different than for them. Their Reality is for him a shadow: For that reason, because he sees and offers a new Reality, he becomes the enemy. [...] He has literally, once and more than once, stood on the magic borderland where everything is affirmed, where not only the remotest thought is true, but also the contrary of such thought. His innocence is not so harmless and men are rightly in awe of him.[...] He does not break the Tables of the Law, he simply turns them round and shows that the contrary to them is written on the other side.
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a God, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.