Why Should Life All Labour Be?
Death is the end of life; ah, why
Should life all labour be?
Quotations
Uncertainty
If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us.
Outbursts of Compassion
In 1944 the mother of the poet Yevtushenko travelled from Siberia to Moscow, where she witnessed a procession of 20,000 German prisoners of war marching through the streets.
Escape Your Inhibitions
Avoid confrontation, says Laborit, because its only result is to establish an order of dominance, such as monkeys seek when they fight to decide who may mate with whom.
What Beauty Lies Inside of People
And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?
Like an Animal, not a Human
A thought: Sometimes the clouds and sunlight will form in a way you’ve never seen them do before, and your city will feel as if it’s another city altogether.
Our Animal Origins
She said that we, as humans, bear the burden of having to be every animal in the world rolled into one.
She said that we really have no identity of our own.
The Tree of Tyranny
While this kingly power reigned in one man called Charles, all sorts of people complained of oppression … Thereupon you that were the gentry, when you were assembled in Parliament, you called upon the poor common people to come and help you
True Freedom Lies in the Free Enjoyment of the Earth
The poorest man hath as true a title and just right to the land as the richest man … True freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the earth
Marked for Life
... one is never finished with one’s family, it’s like the smallpox that catches you as a child and leaves you marked for life.