Teju

“Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.”
― Christopher Moore, A Dirty Job

“You are the lens of the world: the lens through which the world may become aware of itself. The world, on the other hand, is the only lens in which you can see yourself. It is both lenses together that make vision.”
― MacAVOY. R.A.

“You have taught me to be still, so that I could move
properly. You have taught me to listen, so that I can
speak properly. You have taught me to see, so that I might not always be seen.”
― MacAVOY. R.A.

“If fall I must, let me fall amid the smashing of the world, not because it’s right to wish for a national disaster, but because it’s a great comfort in the face of death to see that the earth too is mortal.”
― Seneca, How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life