"Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less."

-- Franz Kafka

#Littles Quotes #Torment Quotes

“Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.”

Source : Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd
“There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.”

Source : Owen Barfield (1954). “History in English Words by Owen Barfield”
“On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.”
“To play well you have to have good balance in your life. Tiger has found that. If you play golf long enough you'll learn that life is more than golf.”
“The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; itâ€™s so easy to make it complex.”
“I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil War was the end of slavery, and the triumph of our collective conscience and humanity over oppression. Sadly, the oppression and systemic subjugation of people of color in this country still exists.”
“A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”
“Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.”

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