Poetry
Favorite Philosophers/Poets:
Friedrich Nietzsche
1
“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
2"The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?"
3"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering"
Rumi
1"Out beyond ideas of
wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language,
even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make any sense."
2"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change
the world. Today I am
wise, so I am changing
myself."
3"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
2"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
3"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
Charles Bukowski
1"What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death."
2"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."