#emo

Why should I be frightened of dying? I did not know what death truly was; no one did. Who had made dying a bad word? Yes, it was universally considered awful—unwanted, painful, feared—because when it happened it stopped us from moving and being, and we interpreted that as if something had ended. But what if it were actually a beautiful experience? What if, with death, something actually began instead? ↗

— Charles Novacek

#memoir #age

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it. ↗

— Horatio Seymour

#constitution #democracy #merit #our #promotes

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#discipline #memory #art

Anyone can live for themself , but life's worth better living for others. ↗

— K. Qasim Ali

#love #painful-memories #phylosophy #friendship

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention? ↗

— Joshua Foer

#lose #memories #pay-attention #art

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#because #direct #foremost #having #i

I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#demonstrate #earth #i #inhabited #means

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emotions. This is impossible, of course. The framing of an image, by its very composition, represents a choice. The photographer chooses what to show and what to exclude. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#chooses #composition #course #devoid #emotions

And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

#continue #country #created #democratic #did

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

#conjunction #consulting #cooperation #create #cultural