Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness. For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.
Khalil GibranDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 10. April 1931) Zur Autorenbiographie
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of: "The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people - and that’s enough." Like, if I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself, cause, "Man, you see how woke I was, I called you out!' [...] That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. You know, if all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That’s easy to do.
This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff - you should get over that quickly. The world is messy; there are ambiguities, People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting may love their kids, and share certain things with you.
Wenn ihr die liebt, die euch lieben, welchen Dank erwartet ihr dafür? Denn auch die Sünder lieben die, von denen sie geliebt werden. Und wenn ihr denen Gutes tut, die euch Gutes tun, welchen Dank erwartet ihr dafür? Das tun auch die Sünder. Und wenn ihr denen Geld leiht, von denen ihr es zurückzubekommen hofft, welchen Dank erwartet ihr dafür? Auch die Sünder leihen Sündern, um das Gleiche zurückzubekommen. Doch ihr sollt eure Feinde lieben und Gutes tun und leihen, wo ihr nichts zurückerhoffen könnt.
I am only one, but still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words — our lives — our pains — nothing! The taking of our lives — lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler — all! That last moment belongs to us — that agony is our triumph.
Wenn ihr mit einer Zeitmaschine in die Vergangenheit zurück reist, müsst ihr höllisch aufpassen, nicht durch eine kleine Handlung den Lauf der Geschichte radikal zu verändern.
Warum glaubt ihr nicht, dass ihr das in der Gegenwart könnt?
Soil erosion is second only to population growth as the biggest environmental problem the world faces. Yet, the problem, which is growing ever more critical, is being ignored because who gets excited about dirt?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Zweifle nie daran, dass eine kleine Gruppe von umsichtigen, engagierten Bürgern die Welt verändern kann. Tatsächlich sind das die einzigen, die es je getan haben.
Die Bedrohung durch den Anti-Intellektualismus war eine Konstante, die sich durch unser politisches und kulturelles Leben zieht, genährt durch die falsche Annahme, dass Demokratie bedeutet: "Meine Ignoranz ist genauso viel wert wie Dein Wissen."
Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than ‘politics.' They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.
Gegenüber der wohlwollenden, staatstragenden kritischen Vernunft, für die jeder aufgeklärte Skandal ein liberaldemokratischer Glücksfall ist, betrachtet die paranoische Vernunft jeden neuen Skandal nur als Spitze des Eisbergs eines laufenden Volksbetrugs.
Europe is not a market, it is the will to live together. Leaving Europe is not leaving a market, it is leaving shared dreams. We can have a common market, but if we do not have common dreams, we have nothing. Europe is the peace that came after the disaster of war. Europe is the pardon between French and Germans. Europe is the return to freedom of Greece, Spain and Portugal. Europe is the fall of the Berlin Wall. Europe is the end of communism. Europe is the welfare state, it is democracy,
My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.
Ich fühle, dass Gott meinen Körper perfekt gemacht hat, so wie ich geboren wurde. Dann haben Männer mich beraubt, meine Kraft genommen und mich als Krüppel zurückgelassen. Meine Weiblichkeit wurde gestohlen. Wenn Gott gewollt hätte, dass diese Teile meines Körpers fehlen, warum hat er sie dann geschaffen? Ich bete, dass eines Tages keine Frau mehr diese Schmerzen erleiden muss. Es wird eine abgetane Sache sein. Leute werden sagen: "Hast du gehört dass weibliche Genitalverstümmelung in Solamia verboten wurde?" Dann das nächste Land, und das nächste, und so weiter, bis die Welt für alle Frauen sicher ist. Was für ein glücklicher Tag das sein wird, und er ist das, worauf ich hinarbeite. In'shallah, wenn Gott will, wird es geschehen.
“I feel that God made my body perfect the way I was born. Then man robbed me, took away my power, and left me a cripple. My womanhood was stolen. If God had wanted those body parts missing, why did he create them? I just pray that one day no woman will have to experience this pain. It will become a thing of the past. People will say "Did you hear, female genital mutilation has been outlawed in Somalia?" Then the next country, and the next, and so on, until the world is safe for all women. What a happy day that will be, and that's what I'm working toward. In'shallah, if God is willing, it will happen.
Klug und fleißig – gibt’s nicht; klug und faul – bin ich selbst; dumm und faul – für Repräsentationszwecke noch ganz gut zu gebrauchen; dumm und fleißig – davor behüte uns der Himmel!
Zum Selbstgefäll'gen sprich: Ich möchte lieber allen, wie du dir selbst, als mir, wie ihnen du, gefallen.
Friedrich RückertDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 31. Januar 1866) Zur Autorenbiographie
It is disgraceful, instead of proceeding ahead, to be carried along, and then suddenly, amid the whirlpool of events, to ask in a dazed way: “How did I get into this condition?”
Seneca the YoungerDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 65 n. Chr.) Zur Autorenbiographie
It’s easy to be pure when you can hate the Devil you don’t know, while at the same time loving the God you lack the brains to doubt.
Anton ChekhovDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 15. Juli 1904) Zur Autorenbiographie
Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
Anton ChekhovDer Spruch darf mit Autorenangabe frei verwendet werden, da die urheberrechtliche Schutzfrist abgelaufen ist († 15. Juli 1904) Zur Autorenbiographie
