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“There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.”
― The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
― The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN
― ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY - MAN
“Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.”
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“A wise woman has already a rite
Where she knows right from left.
She usually writes when she's right
And always leaves before she's left.”
― The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Where she knows right from left.
She usually writes when she's right
And always leaves before she's left.”
― The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
― The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
― The Scottish Himalayan Expedition
Thuli’s 2025 Year in Books
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