"My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.”

Source : Thomas Traherne, Dick Davis (1980). “Selected writings of Thomas Traherne”, Carcanet Pr
“In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.”
“The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.”
“The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again”
“If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.”
“What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its oppositeâ€”by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosityâ€”by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.”
“The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism,”
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

Source : "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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