"I take things too seriously."

--

Helen Slater

“If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve”

Source : "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 54, 1799.
“... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.”
“By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.”
“The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.”
“A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them.”
“Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.”
“To hell with exciting. I'd rather be drab as hell and win.”
“How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.”

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