#aphorism

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#education

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#courage

You can't have love and honor, and neither will bring you peace. ↗

— W.M. Driscoll

#love

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free. ↗

— William Penn

#art

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. ↗