#meta

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. ↗

— Ovid

#classics #greek #humans #intelligence #metamorphoses

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#commercials #had #hear #i #i remember

the road is life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#motto #life

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of use is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#metaphor #life

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. ↗

— George Eliot

#thought #life

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place. ↗

— Matt Simpson

#life #living #metaphor #life

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old) ↗

— C.G. Jung

#transformation #life

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#literature #metaphor #writing #education

And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#metaphor #life

People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life. ↗

— Sarah Hall

#life