~ Daniel Bystedt

“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.

Kille 1: – Ey, idag ska vi på studiebesök hos nazisterna.
Kille 2: – Va? Ska vi ha matlåda med oss? Jag har ingen matlåda.
Kille 1: – Vet inte.
Kille 3: – Men var ska ni någonstans?
Kille 1: – Vi ska se på Kristdemokraterna, Sverigedemokraterna och… andra demokrater.

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk any more, they don’t 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.”

~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

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.

Pojke i 7-årsåldern, till annan pojke i ungefär samma ålder:

- Om man är på väg att bli ovänner ska man säga “förlåt” så fort man bara kan, det har jag läst, för då blir man inte ovänner.

~ Rumi