“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
— Anthony Burgess (from today’s Economist Espresso newsletter)
Tag: Quote
Old be gold
Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
— Alfonso X of Castile (in today’s Economist Espresso)
Different decade, same story
No one wanted to think about the gangs of no-hope teenagers who already took over the nearby park all day, drinking lager and waiting for something to happen to them, trapped in a forgotten village in no-man’s land between a ten-shop town and an amorphous industrial sprawl.
Meena, in Anita & Me, by Meera Syal
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet
When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth.
We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth…Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth.
Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.
An old Somali proverb:
Me and my clan against the world;
Me and my family against my clan;
Me and my brother against my family;
Me against my brother.
Source: The Economist
P.S.: It’s not just the Somalis
“Things just aren’t like they used to be”
Teach with wonder in your eyes
Teach when you are filled with wonder, before you become a boring expert.
— Mark Pilgrim (via Matt Mullenweg)
“We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush,” says Ramon, another character. “There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.”
The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of…
Blaise Pascal
Until my toes point up
“I will personally continue to advocate for equality for all people until my toes point up.”
– Tim Cook
Love that phrase, ‘until my toes point up’.
Such a sweet (to me) way of writing about death :D