#mann

When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hermann-hesse #maturity #roots #soul #youth

As long as you're better at it than skating...," Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #kissing #life

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#exile #happiness #home #manners

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the lids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart. (p. 37) ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#loneliness #hilarious

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#i #lawful #manner #myself #practice

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#believe #directly #interpret #irrational #isolated

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. ↗

— Jane Austen

#behavior #employment #enjoyment #manners #propriety

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location. ↗

— Max von Laue

#both #brightness #exert #factor #factors

Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#back #both #constitution #corrupt #crammed

I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death. ↗

— Courtney Love

#consumed #daily #daily life #death #even