#common

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#unity #experience

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#feel #i #i feel #islands #sea

Common sense is in medicine the master workman. ↗

— Peter Latham

#common sense #master #medicine #sense #workman

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. ↗

— Iris Chang

#commonly #condemned #seen #whatever

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#common-sense #life #zen #life

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#age #collection #common #common sense #eighteen

Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can understand each other's past. We Chinese have been collective for so long, personal histories are not worth mentioning. Therefore as soon as Xiaolin and I knew how old the other was, we knew exactly what big shit had happened in our lives. The introduction of the One Child Policy shortly before out births, for instance and the fact that, in 1985, two pandas were sent to the USA as a national gift and we had to sing a tearful panda song at school. 1989 was the Tiananmen Square student demonstration. Anyway, Xiaolin was one year younger than me, so I assumed we were from the same generation. ↗

— Xiaolu Guo

#culture #lived-history #mores #temporality #age