“Strindberg: ditt penicillin mot optimism.”
~ Daniel Bystedt
“Strindberg: ditt penicillin mot optimism.”
~ Daniel Bystedt
LÄt inte andra definiera ditt liv.
“Nature never deceives us; we deceive ourselves.”
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (find out more about him here), from Emile (find the entire text here).
“You mend clothes like dogs write poetry.”
~ from The Lies of Locke Lamora, page 117, written by Scott Lynch.
I morgonkollektivtrafiken. Jag Àr omgiven av killar i 10-Ärs Äldern:
Kille 1: – Ey, idag ska vi pĂ„ studiebesök hos nazisterna.
Kille 2: – Va? Ska vi ha matlĂ„da med oss? Jag har ingen matlĂ„da.
Kille 1: – Vet inte.
Kille 3: – Men var ska ni nĂ„gonstans?
Kille 1: – Vi ska se pĂ„ Kristdemokraterna, Sverigedemokraterna och… andra demokrater.
Hört pÄ restaurang i Haga igÄr:
Liten flicka: – Jag vill inte ha smör – jag vill ha varulvar!
Flickans mamma: – VĂ„rrullar menar du nog, inte varulvar, varulvar Ă€r monster, du verkar ha fĂ„tt varulvar pĂ„ hjĂ€rnan.
âThe most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people donât talk any more, they donât sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theatre, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather round a fire and tell stories.â
~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
The writer Alain de Button is stuck at Heathrow and thus philosophise about a future without airplanes:
In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a mythic time when vast and complicated machines the size of several houses used to take to the skies and fly high over the Himalayas and the Tasman Sea.
Read the entire article here.
Denna scen utspelades framför mina ögon nÀr jag var pÄvÀg hem frÄn jobbet idag:
Pojke i 7-ÄrsÄldern, till annan pojke i ungefÀr samma Älder:
- Om man Ă€r pĂ„ vĂ€g att bli ovĂ€nner ska man sĂ€ga “förlĂ„t” sĂ„ fort man bara kan, det har jag lĂ€st, för dĂ„ blir man inte ovĂ€nner.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
~ Rumi